Aphasia Tx Flashcards
what tx improves pragmatic skills by teaching them to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant stimuli, use of contextual cues, follow conversational rules, and avoid confabulation
promoting aphasics’ communicative effectiveness (PACE)
things to do when using PACE program
-identify themes or main ideas from reading stimuli
-help client to order the information from leeast to most important
-work on turn taking, topic maintenance, and other pragmatic skillsd
describe goal of PACE
improves pragmatic skills by teaching them to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant stimuli, use of contextual cues, follow conversational rules, and avoid confabulation
WHAT IS the principle of intensive language action therapy (Constraint-induced language therapy; CILT)
-forced use of affected domains (verbal lang)
-mass practice leads to functional gains in communication
what are the components of CILT
-only verbal mode is accepted forcing clients to use their affected domains
-lang tx activities focus on constraining other possible modalities (writing, drawing, gesturees) and restrict the client to use only spoken modality
what is the intensive comprehension aphasia program (ICAP)
-intensive tx focusing on neuroplasticity
-based on ICF model
-includes consideration of: severity, participation in life situations, communication and lang environment, personal identity, attitude, and feelings
what is principle of melodic intonation therapy
-designed for individuals with nonfluent aphasia
-combines several techniques including: intoned speech, unison production w/clinician, lip reading
Helm elicited language program for syntax stimulation (HELPSS)
-USED FOr adolescents and adults with agrammatical speech
-based on a syntactic hierarchy of difficulty shown by agrammatic lcients
-uses 11 sentence types
what are the 11 sentence type in HELPSS program
-imperative intrasitive,
-imperative transitive,
-Wh-interrogative,
-declarative transitive,
-declarative
-intrasitive,
-comparative,
-passive,
-yes-no qs,
-direct-indirect object,
-embedded sentence,
-future
what is transcranial direct stimulation
non-invasive and inexpensive method aimed at direct activiation of affected brain areas
T/F: transcranial direct stimulation can be simultaneously used with speech therapy
TRUE
DESCribe attentive reading and constrained summarization (ARCS)
-focuses on attention during reading aloud and oral summary of text
-improves word retrieval during convo
what is the goal of cognitive appraoch to tx of aud comp
improve comp for spoken lang in natural and everday situations
who is cog approach to tx of aud comp used for
fluent aphasics
T/F: when using conginitive approach to tx of aud comp clients with aphasia need to have relatively good graphomotor skills and adequate alertness
true
