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Releasing the Constraints on Aphasia Therapy: The Positive Impact of Gesture and Multimodality Treatments
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Rose, Miranda L. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: There is a 40-year history of interest in the use of arm and hand gestures in treatments that target the reduction of aphasic linguistic impairment and compensatory methods of communication (Rose, 2006). Arguments for constraining aphasia treatment to the verbal modality have arisen from proponents of constraint-induced aphasia therapy…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Therapy, Aphasia, Nonverbal Communication
The Time-Course of Lexical Activation during Sentence Comprehension in People with Aphasia
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Ferrill, Michelle; Love, Tracy; Walenski, Matthew; Shapiro, Lewis P. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: To investigate the time-course of processing of lexical items in auditorily presented canonical (subject-verb-object) constructions in young, neurologically unimpaired control participants and participants with left-hemisphere damage and agrammatic aphasia. Method: A cross modal picture priming (CMPP) paradigm was used to test 114 control…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Sentences
Measuring Lexical Diversity in Narrative Discourse of People with Aphasia
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Fergadiotis, Gerasimos; Wright, Heather H.; West, Thomas M. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: A microlinguistic content analysis for assessing lexical semantics in people with aphasia (PWA) is lexical diversity (LD). Sophisticated techniques have been developed to measure LD. However, validity evidence for these methodologies when applied to the discourse of PWA is lacking. The purpose of this study was to evaluate four measures…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Processing, Semantics, Content Analysis
A Comparison of Intention and Pantomime Gesture Treatment for Noun Retrieval in People with Aphasia
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Ferguson, Neina F.; Evans, Kelli; Raymer, Anastasia M. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: The effects of intention gesture treatment (IGT) and pantomime gesture treatment (PGT) on word retrieval were compared in people with aphasia. Method: Four individuals with aphasia and word retrieval impairments subsequent to left-hemisphere stroke participated in a single-participant crossover treatment design. Each participant viewed…
Descriptors: Pantomime, Nouns, Aphasia, Intention
Using Semantic Feature Analysis to Improve Contextual Discourse in Adults with Aphasia
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Rider, Jill Davis; Wright, Heather Harris; Marshall, Robert C.; Page, Judith L. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: Semantic feature analysis (SFA) was used to determine whether training contextually related words would improve the discourse of individuals with nonfluent aphasia in preselected contexts. Method: A modified multiple-probes-across-behaviors design was used to train target words using SFA in 3 adults with nonfluent aphasia. Pretreatment,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Aphasia, Vocabulary, Adults
Working Memory in Aphasia: Theory, Measures, and Clinical Implications
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Wright, Heather Harris; Shisler, Rebecca J. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2005
Recently, researchers have suggested that deficits in working memory capacity contribute to language-processing difficulties observed in individuals with aphasia (e.g., I. Caspari, S. Parkinson, L. LaPointe, & R. Katz, 1998; R. A. Downey et al., 2004; N. Friedmann & A. Gvion, 2003; H. H. Wright, M. Newhoff, R. Downey, & S. Austermann, 2003). A…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Investigations, Aphasia, Short Term Memory