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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"aphasia"”.
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Aphasia Friendly Medication Instructions: Effects on Comprehension in Persons with and without Aphasia
… for people with language impairments, such as aphasia. Nine people with aphasia (PWA) and nine people without aphasia (PWoA), participated in this study. Each participant reviewed two unmodified medication instructions and two modified medication instructions using aphasia-friendly principles, …
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The Aphasia Friendly Business Campaign
Aphasia is a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak, read, write, or understand. The disorder is multi-faceted and symptoms vary greatly among individuals, but all forms create pervasive communication barriers that make participation in society difficult. There are well over …
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PREDICTORS OF APHASIA TREATMENT OUTCOME
<p> <bold>Purpose:</bold> Treatment for aphasia, a communication disorder resulting from damage to speech and language areas of the brain, has often been guided by clinical intuition and pragmatism. This manuscript aimed to identify predictors of effective aphasia treatment that could better …
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Neologism production in jargon aphasia
This study investigates a jargon speaker, LT, whose connected speech is composed almost entirely of neologisms. Despite the general intelligibility of his speech, LT is able to produce discrete responses in picture naming tasks. Neologisms were investigated for their phonemic content. Non word …
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The Nature of Working Memory in Aphasia
It is well known that many adults with aphasia demonstrate concomitant deficits in higher-level cognitive functions, including attention, executive function, and short-term and working memory. This has led to two premises: (a) the domain-specific hypothesis, in which aphasia is associated with …
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Understanding and repeating words: evidence from aphasia
The goal of this thesis is to identify the underlying impairments in aphasic disorders of auditory comprehension and repetition. The findings are interpreted within a cognitive neuropsychological framework. Models of normal language processing are discussed in the light of this evidence. …
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Processing events : investigating event conceptualisation in aphasia
Some people with aphasia may have difficulty in talking about events because of trouble in processing situations in a language-ready fashion. A number of models of language production include a level at which messages are shaped to the demands of a particular language system. However, the relation …
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A cross-linguistic study of Broca's aphasia
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Computer gesture therapy for adults with severe aphasia
Aphasia intervention has made increasing use of technology in recent years. The evidence base, which is largely limited to the investigation of spoken language outcomes, indicates positive treatment effects for people with mild to moderate levels of aphasia. Outcomes for those with severe aphasia …
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Sentence processing in aphasia : single case treatment studies
… of sentence processing disorders in aphasia. Assessment of the subjects was guided by models of normal sentence production and comprehension, and involved several new tests which were developed to investigate particular aspects of processing. The assessment phase generated hypotheses …
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An investigation of metalinguistic judgments in Broca's aphasia
… investigated the ability of people with Broca's aphasia to make metalinguistic judgments concerning what was or was not a violation of linguistic rule usage within both the semantic and syntactic domains. A total of 20 white agrammatic and normal speakers, ages 33 to 78, were asked to judge, …
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Aphasia and the presence of language in dreams
… quality of language in dreams in patients with aphasia. 24 aphasic subjects were interviewed using Kagan's (1998) Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA) technique of communication. The main hypothesis investigated was that aphasic patients would experience a better quality of …
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A MEG investigation of lexical access in aphasia
Aphasia is an acquired impairment of language ability that occurs secondary to brain damage, and auditory comprehension deficits are a defining component of aphasia. At the single-word level, these deficits are thought to arise from impaired phonological processing, semantic representations, or …
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Experiences of people with aphasia communicating with healthcare providers
<p>Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder, often resulting from a stroke, that impacts millions of Americans. People with aphasia (PWA) may frequent the hospital for a number of services poststroke and are often accompanied by their primary communication partners (PCP), the person with whom …
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Collaborating on Reference: A Study of Discourse and Aphasia
… analysis showed that all four individuals with aphasia and their partners completed the barrier task trials in ways that were broadly consistent with Clark's collaborative referencing model. Across trials, the initial referencing expressions became more concise and the pairs showed a decline in …
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Perception and Language: Using the Rorschach with People with Aphasia
… mild to moderate fluent or non-fluent types of aphasia to consider the extent to which the Rorschach captured aspects of language impairment not otherwise probed by traditional neurolinguistic measures. A ninth participant, with Wernicke’s aphasia, produced non-scorable responses and was …
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