Evidence for separate lexical tone and sentence intonation: a perception study of Chinese aphasic patients E. Capitani & M. Laiacona: A method for studying the evolution of naming error types in the recovery of acute aphasia: A single-patient and single-stimulus approach. BACKGROUND Both phonological and semantic techniques can be effective in the treatment of patients with anomia (e.g. Howard ...

The facilitative effects of drawing and gesturing on word retrieval for people with aphasia." MA (Master of Arts) thesis, has been approved by the Examining Committee for the thesis requirement for the Master of Arts degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology at the May 2015 graduation. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to Dr. Jean K. Gordon for her guidance with this project and the members of the L...

The aim of this study was to determine whether it was possible to predict therapy gain from participants' performance on background tests of language and cognitive ability. To do this, we amalgamated the assessment and therapy results from 33 people with aphasia following cerebral vascular accident (CVA), all of whom had received the same anomia therapy (based on progressive phonemic and orthog...

Recently, there has been great interest in errorless learning as a new intervention technique. This may be because there are data from both basic neuroscience and clinical application that suggest it is superior to more traditional trial and error methods. In the contemporary literature the most prominent investigations of errorless learning are those designed for rehabilitation of memory impai...

Anomia, a word-finding difficulty, is a frequent consequence of poststroke linguistic disturbance, associated with fluent and nonfluent aphasia that needs long-term specific and intensive speech rehabilitation. The present study explored the feasibility of telerehabilitation as compared to a conventional face-to-face treatment of naming, in patients with poststroke anomia. Five aphasic chronic ...