Aphasia Tx Approaches Flashcards
List the 7 aphasia therapy approaches
Stimulation approach
Localization approach
Neurolinguistic approach
Cognitive neuropsych approach
Pragmatic/functional approach
Social approach
Biopyshcosocial approach
How is aphasia defined in stimulation approach
Aphasia is a general problem in severity
How is aphasia defined in localization approach
Aphasia is syndrome based with symptoms groups with lesion sites
How is aphasia defined in neurolinguistic approach
Aphasia is a neurological cause for language disorder & described by linguistic concepts
How does the cognitive neuropsych approach define aphasia
Aphasia is an information processing impairment & is modality specific
How does the pragmatic/functional approach define aphasia
Aphasia is a disability of person’s engagement in social interactions
How does the social approach define aphasia
Aphasia is a communication disability within environment
How does the biopychosocial approach define aphasia
Aphasia is a disability from a health condition that caused impairment, limitations, and restrictions
Which therapy approach works to stimulate processes, re-educate, and correct
Stimulation approach
Which approach works to stimulate using specific therapies for specific syndromes
Localization approach
Which approach works to re-teach linguistic rules and processes
Neurolinguistic approach
Which tx approach words to explicitly teach language processing
Cognitive neuropsych approach
Which tx approach works to teach conversational principles and trains compensatory strategies to PWA and communication partners
Pragmatic/functional approach
Which tx approach is holistic and client-centered and focuses on reducing barriers
Social approach
Which tx approach is client-directed and involves joint goal development and focuses on all domains
Biopsychosocial approach
What treatments would be considered a stimulation approach
Intensive auditory stimulation
What treatments would be considered a localization approach
MIT- melodic intonation therapy
VAT- visual action therapy
VCIU- voluntary control of involuntary utterances
What treatments would be considered a neurolinguistic approach
Train grammatical structures
TUF- Treatment of Underlying Forms
What treatments would be considered a cognitive neuropsych approach
Mapping
Naming facilitation technique
What treatments would be considered a pragmatic/functional approach
Conversation coaching
Total communication
Script training
PACE
What treatments would be considered a social approach
Living with aphasia
Community aphasia groups
Aphasia-friendly formats
What treatments would be considered a biopsychosocial approach
All therapy techniques
Definition/purpose of Schull’s Stimulation Approach
Uses intensive auditory stimulation to reorganize and maximize recovery of language, improving auditory verbal comprehension
Who is Schull’s Stimulation best for
Chronic, severe non-fluent aphasia
Broca’s Aphasia
Evidence of schull’s stimulation approach
-Improved standardized assessment scores
-Generalization of naming and auditory comprehension
-Maintenance of gains
7 Principles of Schull’s Stimulation
- Controlled stimulation along a number of dimensions
- Each stimulus should elicit a response
- Large number of responses should be elicited
- Vary stimulus items
- Systematic treatment instructions and cues administered
- Treatment begins where slight difficulty exists
- Session begins with relatively easy items & progresses to more difficult
Dimensions of tasks in schulls stimulation approach
- point to an item named (easiest)
- Point to an item described by its function
- Point to item in order to complete a sentence
- Point to an item in response to a question
- Point to two+ objects named
- Point to item described by a varying number of descriptors
11 Ways variables can be varied (in schulls stimulation)
- Auditory presentation (SNR)
- Visual clarity
- Discriminability
- Modalities (single or combined)
- Rate
- Length
- Redundancy
- Word characteristics
- Grammar and syntax
- Context
- Cues, prompts, pre-stimulation
Purpose of varying stimulus items
Increase or decrease difficulty
Minimize failures and maximize success
How to vary the auditory presentation of stimuli
-Increased SNR is better for auditory verbal comprehension
-Increase speech and decrease background noise
-Make speech more distinct
(increased volume is not beneficial)
How to vary the visual clarity of stimuli
- 3D (real object) is easier that 2D (picture) items
-Color is easier than black and white
-In context is easier than out of context
-Use of operate language is easier than figurative language
How to vary the discriminability of stimuli
-Items vastly different are easier than more similar items
-Can be semantically different, visually different, or phonetically different
-Stimulus eliciting fewer response possibilities is easier than those with a lot of response posibilities
How to vary the modality of stimuli
-Combined stimuli is easier than single delivery mode
-(Listening and seeing is easier when paired)
-Amount of modality can very
How to vary the rate of stimuli
-Slower rate is easier than faster rate
-Pausing between is easier than quickly progressing through stimuli
How to vary the length of stimuli
-Shorter stimuli is easier than longer stimuli length
-Less stimuli items is easier than more stimuli items
How to vary the redundancy of stimuli
Additional words that give redundant information is easier than stimuli with non-redundant information
How to vary the word characteristics of stimuli
- Nouns are easier than verbs
- Concrete words are easier than abstract words
- Higher frequency words are easier than low frequency
How to vary the grammar and syntax of stimuli
-non reversible sentences is easier than reversible sentences
-Active sentences are easier than passive sentences
-Single sentences are easier than complex
-Direct sentences are easier than indirect
-Transitive verbs are easier than intransitive verbs
How to vary the context of stimuli
-within context (given contextual information) is easier than without context
-Stimulation with a script (planned based on environment context) is easier than unscripted
How to vary the cues, prompts, and pre-stimulation of stimuli
-Cue type: semantic cues (similar meaning); phonemic cues (single sounds of word/sounding out)
-Prompt types: gesture, physical, verbal, proximital
-Pre-stimulation: giving cues/stimulation to make it easier
9 Types of cues in Schulls stimulation, easiest to hardest
- Repetition
- Sentence completiton + verbal 1st and 2nd phoneme
- Sentence completiton + verbal 1st phoneme
- Sentence completion + silent 1st phoneme
- Sentence completion
- SLP states and demonstrates function
- SLP states function of item
- SLP asks pt to state function of item
- No cues
SPPA stands for what? & what is it formerly known as?
Sentence Production Program for Aphasia
Formerly: Helm Elicited Language Program for Syntax Stimulation (HELPSS)
How does SPPA work?
SPPA uses story completion formation to elicit production of a variety of syntactic structures to improve sentence production
Best candidate for SPPA
Non-fluent, agrammatical aphasia
Broca’s
(NOT appropriate for global)
Evidence of SPPA
-Increased conversational phrase length
-Increased picture descriptions
-Increased expressive language scores on post-treatment
-Maintenance of expressive language gains
Process of using SPPA
-Client presents picture
-Clinician reads story with target information
-Training level A: delayed repetition
-Training level B: delayed re-prompting without repetition
-Clinician asks questions without training
Explain the training levels of SPPA
-Level A: clinician says the target phrase for the patient. Immediately after, asks a questions eliciting target phrase. Patient engages in delayed repetition
-Level B: Patient is later re-prompted to complete story/question eliciting the target phrase without repetition
Before advancing to more complex sentence types, what is needed during SPPA
-Achieve response criterion of 90% accuracy
-Generalization (probing)
What does MIT stand for?
Melodic Intonation Therapy
How does MIT work?
Uses intoned melodies to improve verbal production instead of monotone production, stimulating/recruiting the right hemisphere’s melodic abilities to facilitate language
-Goal: improve speech production
Best candidate for MIT
LH cerebral damage (unilateral LH stroke)
Poor articulation
Non-fluent
Moderately good auditory verbal comprehension
Poor repetition
Broca’s aphasia
Evidence of MIT
-Improved phrase length
-Improved content units
-Improved naming
-Improved repetition
-Improved auditory verbal comprehension
-NO generalization or maintenance
Stimulus used in MIT
-High probability two syllable words, phrases, and simple sentences that’re specific to patients needs and preferences
-Initially, use imperatives
-Environmental cues or corresponding pictures can be used to increased saliency (in context> out of context)
SLP’s role during MIT
-Hold patient’s hand
-Tap for each intoned syllable of word, phrase or sentence
-Produce target with constant voicing, exaggerated melody, and stress and rhythm patterns associated with normal speech
What aspect of speech should be determined before beginning MIT
Determine suprasegmental aspects in patient’s speech- natural pitch, stress, and rhythm patterns of selected words and phrases
Process/Levels of MIT
Hierarchial structure of 3 levels:
Level 1: musically intoned
Level 2: Musically intoned
Level 3: Without melody
Steps of MIT Level 1
- humming and hand tapping
- Unison singing and hand tapping
- Unison singing with fading and tapping
- Immediate repetition and hand tapping
- Response to probe question
Steps of MIT Level 2
- Introduction of item target & hand tapping
- Unison with fading and hand tapping
- Delayed repetition
- Response to probe question
Steps of MIT Level 3
- Delayed repetition
- Introduce sprechgesang (speech song)
- Sprechgesang with fading w/o taps
- Spoken repetition with 6 second delay w/o taps
- Response to probe question
Which 3 traditional aphasia treatment approaches are structured?
- Schulles stimulation
- SPPA
- MIT
What is the purpose of response elaboration training?
Increase verbal expression by increasing information content and length of response
What two strategies does response elaboration training use to emphasize and reinforce content?
- Loose training
- Incidental teaching
In response elaboration training what is the focus?
Content NOT form
You reinforce content
In response elaboration training what is the target response?
No predetermined response
Instead elaborate, emphasize, and reinforce content
Define loose training
The stimulus, response, and feedback conditions within the therapy sessions are varied based on the patient’s response to stimuli
Define incidental teaching
Clinician shapes and elaborates spontaneous client-initiated responses (rather then targeting pre-selected response)
When using incidental teaching, what is the priority focus?
Communicative success (reinforce response)
Not the specific linguistic structures or means of communication
Best candidate for RET
Non-fluent aphasia
Wide range of severity
With more severe aphasic patients showing more gains
Evidence of RET
-Increase in number of content words
-Slight improvement in PICA standardized test
-Some generalization present
What is the stimulus in RET?
Line drawings of transitive and intransitive verbs with minimal context to elicit response