منابع مشابه
Speech Therapy in Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Pilot Study
BACKGROUND Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative disorder with no effective pharmacological treatment. Cognition-based interventions are adequate alternatives, but their benefit has not been thoroughly explored. Our aim was to study the effect of speech and language therapy (SLT) on naming ability in PPA. METHODS An open parallel prospective longitudinal study involving two...
متن کاملSpeech and language therapy for aphasia following stroke.
BACKGROUND Aphasia describes language impairment associated with a brain lesion. OBJECTIVES The objective of this review was to assess the effects of formal speech and language therapy and non-professional types of support from untrained providers for people with aphasia after stroke. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Stroke Group Trials Register (last searched: March 1999), and refe...
متن کاملSpeech and language therapy for aphasia following subacute stroke
The aim of this study was to investigate the time window, duration and intensity of optimal speech and language therapy applied to aphasic patients with subacute stroke in our hospital. The study consisted of 33 patients being hospitalized for stroke rehabilitation in our hospital with first stroke but without previous history of speech and language therapy. Sixteen sessions of impairment-based...
متن کاملSpeech segmentation in aphasia.
BACKGROUND Speech segmentation is one of the initial and mandatory phases of language learning. Although some people with aphasia have shown a preserved ability to learn novel words, their speech segmentation abilities have not been explored. AIMS We examined the ability of individuals with chronic aphasia to segment words from running speech via statistical learning. We also explored the rel...
متن کاملMechanism of repetition in transcortical sensory aphasia.
A typical case of transcortical sensory aphasia (TSA) is presented, in which the Wada test suggests that it is the right hemisphere which enables the patient to repeat orally. It is supposed that one of the mechanisms of preserved repetition in TSA is linked to an exceptional ability for repetition of the right hemisphere, which may help to explain why cases of TSA are so rare.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Higher Brain Function Research
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0285-9513,1880-6716
DOI: 10.2496/apr.16.238