Language Intervention Strategies in Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Communication Disorders is a comprehensive resource on aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders. This classic text has been used by graduate speech language pathology students for over 25 years, and continues to be the definitive resource across the speech sciences for aphasia.

The book describes a wide range of intervention strategies including team treatment, group therapy, approaches for bilingual and culturally diverse clients, augmentative and alternative communication, and computer-assisted interventions. An important section addresses psychosocial/functional approaches to intervention.

Contents

Basic Considerations

1. Introduction to Language Intervention Strategies in Adult Aphasia
2. Neural Basis of Language Disorders
3. Medical Aspects of Stroke Rehabilitation
4. Assessment of Language Disorders in Adults

Principles of Language Intervention

5. Research Principles for the Clinician
6. Aphasia Treatment: Recovery, Prognosis, and Clinical Effectiveness
7. Delivering Language Intervention Services to Adults with Neurogenic Communication Disorders
8. Teams and Partnerships in Aphasia Intervention
9. Aphasia Assessment and Treatment for Bilingual and Culturally Diverse Patients

Psychosocial/Functional Approaches to Intervention: Focus on Improving Ability to Perform Communication Activities of Daily Living

10. Life Participation Approach to Aphasia: A Statement of Values for the Future
11. Social Approaches to Aphasia Intervention
12. Environmental Systems Approach to Adult Aphasia
13. Treating Life Consequences of Aphasia's Chronicity
14. Group Therapy for Aphasia: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Traditional Approaches to Language Intervention

15. Schuell's Stimulation Approach to Rehabilitation
16. Thematic Language Stimulation Therapy
17. Cognitive Stimulation: Stimulation of Recognition/Comprehension, Memory, and Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Thinking
18. Early Management of Wernicke's Aphasia: A Context-Based Approach
19. Rehabilitation of Subcortical Aphasia
20. Primary Progressive Aphasia
21. Critical Intervention for Global Aphasia
22. Cognitive Neuropsychological Approaches to Rehabilitation of Language Disorders: Introduction
23. Cognitive Approaches to Impairments of Word Comprehension and Production
24. Cognitive Neuropsychological Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment: Production and Comprehension of Sentences
25. Comprehension and Production of Written Words
26. Language Rehabilitation from a Neural Perspective
27. Language Oriented Treatment: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Aphasia
28. Treatment of Aphasia Subsequent to the Porch Index of Communicative Ability (PICA)
29. Augmentative and Alternative Communication for People with Aphasia
30. Melodic Intonation Therapy
31. Computer Applications in Aphasia Treatment

Therapy for Associated Neuropathologies of Speech and Language Related Functions

33. Communication Disorders Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury
34. Communication Disorders Associated with Right Hemisphere damage
35. Management of Neurogenic Communication Disorders Associated with Dementia
36. Nature and Treatment of Neuromotor Speech Disorders in Aphasia

Appendices

• Consonant Production Probe
• Example of Lists of Balanced Multisyllabic Words
• Examples of Sentence Completion Items
• Metronome and Hand-tapping Treatment
• Eight-Step Continuum
• Original Sound Production Treatment Hierarchy
• Modified Sound Production Treatment

Index

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