BACKGROUND Spatial communication consists of both verbal spatial language and gesture. There has been minimal research investigating the use of spatial communication, and even less focussing on people with aphasia. AIMS The aims of this exploratory study were to describe the frequency and variability of spatial language and gesture use by three participants with aphasia in comparison to nine ...

PURPOSE This article describes computer software that was developed specifically for training conversational scripts and illustrates its use with 3 individuals with aphasia. METHOD Three participants with chronic aphasia (Broca's, Wernicke's, and anomic) were assessed before and after 9 weeks of a computer script training program. For each participant, 3 individualized scripts were developed,...

Aphasia is a language impairment caused by acquired brain injury such as stroke. Public awareness about aphasia low in Sweden well internationally. The media an important source of information on aphasia, but research how people with are portrayed the scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to increase knowledge representations living studying Swedish journalistic newspaper articles. It focused sto...

Numerous studies over the span of more than a decade have shown that non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, namely transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), can facilitate language recovery for patients who have suffered from aphasia due to stroke. While stroke is the most common etiology of aphasia, neurodegenerative causes of langua...

Aphasia may be defined as a total or partial loss of the use or understanding of language, the receptive and expressive organs of speech remaining intact. Since speech is an intellectual function, dependent upon the physiological activity of the underlying neural arrangements, the component units of which have an anatomical localization, the problem of aphasia may be considered from the psychol...

This paper describes an exploratory study into the accessibility of the virtual world Second Life for two young people with aphasia. Aphasia is a communicative disorder most commonly caused by a stroke. It affects both written and spoken language, is frequently accompanied by right-sided paralysis and people with aphasia can experience isolation and social exclusion. Multi-user virtual worlds a...

For successful language production in a target language, bilingual individuals with aphasia must inhibit interference from the non-target language. It is currently unknown if inhibition of involves general cognitive control (domain-general control) or whether it specific to linguistic mechanisms (domain-specific during production. The primary aim this systematic quantitative literature review w...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Acquired apraxia of speech (AOS) is a motor speech disorder caused by brain damage. AOS often co-occurs with aphasia, a language disorder in which patients may also demonstrate speech production errors. The overlap of speech production deficits in both disorders has raised questions on whether AOS emerges from a unique pattern of brain damage or as a subelement of the aph...

Acquired aphasia is the loss of some aspect of language processing consequent to brain damage. The specific form of aphasia observed in a patient is determined by the locus of cerebral insult. However, given the complexity of the language processing system, involving as it does complex linguistic mechanisms--phonological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic-as well as associated cogniti...