Aphasia Treatment - Auditory Comp

Question 1

word comprehension

Answer 1

• auditory analysis (phoneme discrimination tasks)
• auditory input lexicon (lexical decision tasks)
• semantic system (word picture matching tasks)

Question 2

de-blocking

Answer 2

(Helm-Estrabrook & Fitzpatrick)

-use visual stimulus to “deblock” response to verbal stimuli

—DO WITH FLUENT/WERNICKE’s

Question 3

mapping therapy

Answer 3

(Shwartz et al)

-therapy involves teaching the pt to pick out the s subject and object of a sentences using a questioning picture

…for pt who has mapping impairments as shown by assigning thematic roles, but has unimpaired grammaticality judgement and intact comprehension of single spoken and written words

*** can also be used for production of passive and active sentences

Question 4

TUF

Answer 4

Treatment of Underlying Forms (Thompson et al.)

—appraoch is focused on aspects of language that are impaired in agrammatic aphasia, control lexical and syntactic properties of trained and untrained sentences

—this treatment proceeds by training complex rather than simple syntactic structures

1. pt is first is asked to point to one of 2 pictures matching the auditorialy presented sentence
2. examiner then makes a sentence for one of the pictures and the pt is required to produce a similar sentence for the semantically reversed picture

—can be done for production too!!!