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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"people with aphasia"”.
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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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Perception and Language: Using the Rorschach with People with Aphasia
<p>This study explored the use of the Rorschach with eight individuals diagnosed with 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 …
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Assessing health-related quality of life in people with aphasia
… A number of studies have explored the HRQL of people with stroke. Still, due to a number of conceptual and methodological issues, there is no clear understanding of the HRQL of a stroke subgroup: people with aphasia. Aims: The broad aim of this research was to explore the HRQL of people with …
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The use of gestures in the conversations of people with aphasia
… communication. When communication is impaired by aphasia, gestures are affected as well. It is important to find out how people with aphasia (PWA) use gesture as an accompaniment to speech, as a compensatory modality, and during lexical retrieval. This novel study examined the use and functions of …
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A mixed method investigation into the impact of activation therapy with and without word finding for people with aphasia
… Information Impairment based therapy studies for people with aphasia indicate that therapy which involves word finding practice can help people with aphasia find words. Research has also suggested that the impact of therapy can generalise to other words not used in therapy and that it can have a …
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Perspectives on ICT-delivered aphasia rehabilitation: exploring feasibility, usability and acceptance of this mode of rehabilitation
… therapy can provide positive outcomes for people with aphasia after stroke. The intensity of therapy is a key component for successful rehabilitation outcomes but, due to resource constraints, it can be a challenge for services to provide intensive face-to-face rehabilitation. The …
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Adaptation of the BIAS R to Russian language and piloting validation studies
… In Germany, no standardised diagnostic tool for aphasia is currently available to assess Russian-speaking people suffering from late acute and early post-acute aphasia. In most cases, this group of people can speak Russian and German, requiring an assessment of both languages. #### Methods The …
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Cortical Tracking of Syntax in Post-Stroke Aphasia: An EEG Investigation of Disrupted Sentence Comprehension
<p>Purpose. People with aphasia following stroke commonly exhibit marked difficulties in sentence comprehension, referred to as receptive agrammatism. However, theories of receptive agrammatism differ in their assumptions regarding the underlying mechanisms of impairment. Representation-based …
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Quantitative Differences in the Conversational Performance of People with Severe Expressive Aphasia Using Three Types of Visual Screen Displays on Speech Generating Devices
… dyadic conversational interactions between six people with severe aphasia and their peer communication partners across three conditions involving a type of augmentative communication intervention, speech generating devices (SGDs). Researchers assessed these variables across four conditions …
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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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Influence of Examiner Dialect on a Bidialectal Speaker with Aphasia
… discourse in a bidialectal African American with mild aphasia. We hypothesized that there may be a cognitive cost when responding to the examiner by code switching from African American English (AAE) to General American English (GAE) for bidialectal people with aphasia. We elicited story …
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An eye tracking study of sentence reading in aphasia: influences of frequency and context
… reading difficulties are a pervasive symptom in aphasia, but are little researched. Eye tracking research with neurologically healthy participants has demonstrated that reading is influenced by a number of information sources that are related to our experience with language. Two of these sources …
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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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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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Aphasia Friendly Medication Instructions: Effects on Comprehension in Persons with and without Aphasia
<p>Accessible health information supports people to understand and manage chronic medical conditions and is frequently presented via text. Comprehension of written health information becomes more difficult for people with language impairments, such as aphasia. Nine people with aphasia (PWA) and …
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Do Baseline Language Impairment Measures Predict Anomia Treatment Outcome?
<p>Most treatment approaches used with people with aphasia include a phonological or semantic focus; many studies have examined the effectiveness of these approaches. Some studies have sought to determine if patients' impairment level is associated with treatment outcome following administration of …
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Drawing Conclusions about Aphasia: An Examination of the Relationship between Word Retrieval, Drawing, and Semantics
<p>The hallmark characteristic of aphasia, word retrieval impairment, can significantly affect a person’s ability to communicate their needs and ideas. Treatment for these deficits typically focuses on either restorative or compensatory strategies. In aphasia therapy, clinicians have predominately …
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Colour and Naming in Healthy and Aphasic People
… this study was to create a paradigm suitable for people with aphasia and healthy subjects to evaluate the influence of colour on naming pictures of objects. We designed a completely new stimulus set based on images of 140 common real objects that were inspired by the Snodgrass and Vanderwart …
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Use of an integrated multimodal communication treatment with individuals with severe traumatic brain injury
<p>People affected by severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) often live with co-occurring speech and language deficits, including apraxia of speech and dysarthria. Using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies (e.g., gesturing, writing, speech generating devices and applications) …
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