Aphasia Therapy File

A practical resource handbook based on speech and language therapy. It presents a collection of explicit descriptions about therapy interventions, rationale for therapy, and evaluation of the outcomes.

List of contributors

ix

Introduction to the Aphasia Therapy File

1

(8)

Aims of the Aphasia Therapy File

2

(1)

Criteria for submission

2

(1)

About the studies in this volume

3

(3)

Acknowledgements

6

(1)

References

6

(3)

PART I: ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF OUTPUT

Introduction to Part 1: When there's no spoken output

9

(4)

Psycholinguistic profiles

9

(2)

References

11

(2)

Needs, function, and measurement: Juggling with multiple language impairment

13

(28)

Deborah Harding

Carole Pound

Introduction

13

(1)

Aims of the current therapy study

14

(1)

Background issues

14

(1)

Assessment

15

(1)

Therapeutic intervention

16

(13)

Outcome: Language and beyond

29

(1)

Social, cultural, and emotional factors in psychosocial transition

30

(3)

Acknowledgements

33

(1)

Footnote

33

(1)

References

33

(2)

Appendices

35

(6)

Drawing on the semantic system: The use of drawing as a therapy medium

41

(20)

Jon Hunt

Background

41

(1)

Assessment

42

(4)

Conclusions and implications for therapy

46

(1)

Therapy

46

(10)

Evaluation of therapy and conclusions

56

(3)

Emotional and psychosocial aspects

59

(1)

Acknowledgements

60

(1)

References

60

(1)

Increasing effective communication using a total communication approach

61

(14)

Richard Lawson

Maggie Fawcus

Introduction

61

(1)

Previous speech and language therapy

61

(2)

Social history

63

(1)

Group therapy

63

(1)

Rationale for therapy

64

(1)

Treatment strategies

64

(4)

Outcomes

68

(3)

Acknowledgements

71

(1)

References

71

(4)

PART 2: WORD RETRIEVAL THERAPIES

Introduction to Part 2: Therapies for word finding utilising orthographic relay strategies

75

(4)

Strengths and strategies

75

(1)

Outcomes/functional change/generalisation

76

(1)

Teasing out stands of therapy and change

76

(1)

Intensity of therapy

77

(1)

References

77

(2)

An intensive strategy-based therapy programme for impaired spelling

79

(14)

Jane Mortley

Background to the single case study of MF

79

(1)

Assessment

80

(1)

The stages in therapy

81

(5)

The therapy outcome

86

(1)

The therapy process

86

(1)

Discussion

87

(4)

Conclusions

91

(1)

Acknowledgements

91

(1)

References

92

(1)

Appendix

92

(1)

Naming therapy for an aphasic person with fluent empty speech

93

(8)

Morwenna White-Thomson

Background

93

(1)

Initial observations and assessments

93

(2)

Therapy

95

(3)

Summary

98

(1)

References

98

(1)

Appendices

99

(2)

A treatment programme for an impairment in reading function words

101

(6)

Jenny Sheridan

Language investigations

101

(1)

Therapy 1

102

(1)

Therapy 2

103

(1)

Summary

104

(1)

References

104

(3)

PART 3: ``BEYOND THE SINGLE WORD'' THERAPIES

Introduction to Part 3: Therapies addressing impairments in processing verbs and sentences

107

(4)

References

109

(2)

Doing something about a verb impairment: Two therapy approaches

111

(20)

Jane Marshall

Introduction

111

(1)

Spontaneous speech analysis

112

(1)

Verb and noun production

113

(3)

The design of the therapy study

116

(1)

The first therapy programme

117

(6)

The second therapy programme

123

(6)

Emotional aspects

129

(1)

Footnote

130

(1)

References

130

(1)

Early stages in treating a person with non-fluent aphasia

131

(12)

Alison Greenwood

Introduction

131

(5)

Therapy

136

(3)

Evaluation of therapy

139

(2)

References

141

(2)

``Who ends up with the fiver?''---a sentence production therapy

143

(8)

Jane Marshall

Introduction

143

(2)

Assessment

145

(1)

Therapy

146

(3)

Evaluation

149

(1)

References

149

(2)

An informal example of a successful therapy for a sentence processing deficit

151

(10)

Kate Swinburn

Introduction

151

(1)

Single-word assessment

152

(1)

Sentence-level assessment

152

(1)

Therapy

153

(4)

References

157

(1)

Appendices

158

(3)

Author index

161

(2)

Subject index

163

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