Treatment Approaches

Question 1

ACRT/CART:

Answer 1

Anagram, Copy and Recall Therapy

Goal: improve spelling so that writing can be used as a means of everyday communication in compensation for speech output deficits

Question 2

ATP:

Answer 2

Aphasia Treatment Program

Question 3

APT I and APT-II:

Answer 3

Attention Process Training

Question 4

CAIAC:

Answer 4

Cognitive Approach to Improving Auditory Comprehension

Goal: Improve the understanding of spoken messages in natural settings and everyday situations

Question 5

CDP:

Answer 5

Communicative Drawing Program

Goal: Patients to be able to use drawings as a functional means of conveying messages, ideas, thoughts, and feelings

Question 6

BDB:

Answer 6

Back to the Drawing Board (Nonverbal Aphasics)

Question 7

HELPPS/SPPA:

Answer 7

Sentence Production Program for Aphasia

Goal: Improve the ability of NF PWA who demonstrate agrammatism to make statements and requests, ask questions, an converse

Question 8

C-VIC/VIC:

Answer 8

Computer-Assisted Visual Communication

Goal: Provide the PWA an alternative means of self-expression

PWA learns to select pictures and symbols on a computer screen and put them into meaningful arrays to make statements, produce requests, and ask questions.

Question 9

MIT:

Answer 9

Melodic Intonation Therapy

Goal: Stimulate recovery of propositional speech skills of individuals who, despite relatively good auditory comprehension, are severely non-fluent in their ability to communicate even through single words.

Question 10

VAT:

Answer 10

Visual Action Therapy

Goal: Increase the ability of PWA poor verbal skills to produce representational gestures for purposes of functional communication

Question 11

PACAG:

Answer 11

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Question 12

PACE:

Answer 12

Promoting Aphasics Communicating Effectiveness

Question 13

VCIU:

Answer 13

Voluntary Control of Involuntary Utterances

Goal: stimulate the use of propositional speech for purposes of functional communication in PWA whose verbal output is limited to involuntary production of a few real, well-articulated words that may be used stereotypically

Question 14

TWA:

Answer 14

Treatment for Wernicke’s Aphasia

Goal: Improve the ability to individuals with moderate to severe Wernicke’s aphasia to understand spoken messages in everyday settings and situations

Question 15

RET:

Answer 15

Response Elaboration Training

Question 16

TAP:

Answer 16

Treatment for Aphasic Perseveration

Goal: Reduce recurrent verbal perseverations that block retrieval and production of correct target substantive words