The Impact of Intensity of Aphasia Therapy on Recovery To the Editor: In a 2003 article in Stroke, Bhogal et al1 concluded intensive aphasia therapy ( 9 hours of treatment per week for 11 weeks) had a greater impact on speech and language outcomes for aphasic stroke patients than less intensive treatment ( 2 hours of treatment per week for 23 weeks). Findings from this article have been used to...

INTRODUCTION Clinical research highlights the importance of massed practice in the rehabilitation of chronic post-stroke aphasia. However, while necessary, massed practice may not be sufficient for ensuring progress in speech-language therapy. Motivated by recent advances in neuroscience, it has been claimed that using language as a tool for communication and social interaction leads to synergi...

INTRODUCTION Globalization imposes challenges to the field of behavioural neurology, among which is an increase in the prevalence of bilingual aphasia. Thus, aphasiologists have increasingly focused on bilingual aphasia therapy and, more recently, on the identification of the most efficient procedures for triggering language recovery in bilinguals with aphasia. Therapy in both languages is ofte...

This event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study reports on the impact of semantic feature analysis (SFA) therapy on the neural substrate sustaining the recovery from severe anomia in two patients: one participant was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) 2 years before this study; the other participant acquired aphasia 8 years before this study. The participant ...

Although the efficacy of aphasia therapy has been demonstrated, the very fact that this demonstration continues to have detractors shows that the treatment of aphasia, despite its effectiveness, remains unsatisfactory. Why is this the case? We postulate four contributing reasons: (1) The pathophysiology of the late stages of stroke is poorly understood; (2) the therapeutic options for subacute ...

Objectives The Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Post-Stroke Aphasia feasibility trial had four primary aims: to assess (1) acceptability of the intervention people with aphasia, including severe (2) recruitment and retention, (3) research procedures outcome measures, (4) delivering by speech language therapists. Design Two-group randomised controlled wait-list design, blinded assessors nested ...

BACKGROUND: Brain research has documented that the cortical mechanisms for language and action are tightly interwoven and, concurrently, new approaches to language therapy in neurological patients are being developed that implement language training in the context of relevant linguistic and non-linguistic actions, therefore taking advantage of the mutual connections of language and action syste...

BACKGROUND Aphasia is a severely disabling condition occurring in 20 to 25% of stroke patients. Most patients with aphasia due to stroke receive speech and language therapy. Methodologically sound randomised controlled trials investigating the effect of specific interventions for patients with aphasia following stroke are scarce. The currently available evidence suggests that intensive speech a...

Background: Aphasia is a severely disabling condition occurring in 20 to 25% of stroke patients. Most patients with aphasia due to stroke receive speech and language therapy. Methodologically sound randomised controlled trials investigating the effect of specific interventions for patients with aphasia following stroke are scarce. The currently available evidence suggests that intensive speech ...