Sentemce Level Therapy

Question 1

Processing the event therapy- Marshall et al 1993

Answer 1

dysphasic subject impairments in sentence production.
poor verb production and reduced access to the verb argument information + additional problems of event processing.
Errors:
on a verb/picture matching task
a video assessment which required the identification of participant roles from interactive events.
Therapy aimed to improve event processing.
The subject was asked to identify the agent and theme in video events by selecting relevant photographs.
Evaluation showed that therapy improved the subject’s ability to produce two argument descriptions of action pictures.
The structural skills generalized to representations of events which had not been targeted in therapy

Question 2

Processing the verbs and arguments therapy nickels et al 1991

Answer 2

Had AER
STAGE 1- comprehension. Had to match action pictures in the right order. Hierarchical
STAGE 2-production. Used same cards but had to produce spoken sentences about the picture.
Then encouraged to produce with no cards
Found task specific improvement, SVO sentences, improved sentence to picture matching and picture description

Question 3

Treatment of underlying forms- Thompson 2008

Answer 3

TUF is focuses on complex non canonical sentence structures
Believes that training the underlying properties of language will allow for effective generalisation to untrained structures that share similar linguistic properties and are less complex
Found generalisation to linguistically similar sentence

Question 4

Verb impairments assessment

Answer 4

Spontaneous speech:
Nouns better
Verbs with more complex arguments more vulnerable
Verb and action assessment
Object picture naming battery
Simple picture descriptions e.g. Cookie thief