The AHCPR Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Clinical Practice Guidelines defines aphasia as "the loss of ability to communicate orally, through signs, or in writing, or the inability to understand such communications; the loss of language usage ability." It has been reported that aphasia is one of the most common consequences of stroke in both the acute and chronic phases. Acutely, it is estimated tha...

Background We require high-quality information on the current burden, types of therapy and resources available, methods delivery, care pathways long-term outcomes for people with aphasia.Aim To document inform international delivery post-stroke aphasia treatment, to optimise recovery reintegration aphasia.Methods & Procedures Multi-centre, prospective, non-randomised, open study, employing blin...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with good responses to speech therapy combined with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in aphasic patients after stroke. METHOD The language function was evaluated using Korean version of Western aphasia battery (K-WAB) before and after speech therapy with tDCS in 37 stroke patients. Patients received speech therapy for 30 minutes over 2 t...

Aphasia intervention has made increasing use of technology in recent years. The evidence base, which is largely limited to the investigation of spoken language outcomes, indicates positive treatment effects for people with mild to moderate levels of aphasia. Outcomes for those with severe aphasia, however, are less well documented and - where reported - present less consistent gains for measure...

Many stroke survivors experience language impairments (aphasia) beyond 6 months to 1 year after the stroke. Language is a fundamental element in human interaction, and aphasia is independently associated with less participation in rehabilitation programmes, depression and worse quality of life.1–3 Nonetheless, aphasia is not an untreatable condition. Speech therapy can be greatly effective to i...

Does constraint-induced movement therapy improve activity and participation in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy? Does it improve activity and participation more than the same dose of upper limb therapy without restraint? Is the effect of constraint-induced movement therapy related to the duration of intervention or the age of the children? Systematic review of randomised trials with meta...

UNLABELLED The relation between other aspects of cognition and language status of individuals with aphasia is not well-established, although there is some evidence that integrity of non-linguistic skills of attention, memory, executive function and visuospatial skills can not be predicted on the basis of aphasia severity. At the same time, there is a growing realization among rehabilitation spe...

INTRODUCTION Aphasia is considered to be the most difficult disorders of speech-language communication, and is often companion by all forms of cerebrovascular disease. GOAL To determine the outcome of aphasia disorder a year after a stroke and stroke type influence on the outcome of aphasia disorders. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed one-year outcome of aphasia disorders in patients who had...

BACKGROUND Patients with brain lesions and resultant chronic aphasia frequently suffer from depression. However, no effective interventions are available to target neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with aphasia who have severe language and communication deficits. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the efficacy of 2 different methods of speech and language therapy in reducing...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors (a) investigated whether a group of people with severe aphasia could learn a vocabulary of pantomime gestures through therapy and (b) compared their learning of gestures with their learning of words. The authors also examined whether gesture therapy cued word production and whether naming therapy cued gestures. METHOD Fourteen people with severe aphasia rece...