The aphasia therapy file /

This book in file format is designed as a practical resource for speech and language therapists to disseminate, encourage and facilitate writing about therapy interventions for aphasia by the practitioners themselves. This provides an opportunity for clinicians to contribute to the evidence base for...

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Other Authors: Byng, Sally, 1956-, Swinburn, Kate, Pound, Carole
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hove, East Sussex, UK : Psychology Press, ©1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to the Aphasia Therapy File
  • pt. I. Alternative Forms of Output
  • 2. Introduction to Part 1: When there's no spoken output
  • 3. Needs, function, and measurement: Juggling with multiple language impairment / Deborah Harding and Carole Pound
  • 4. Drawing on the semantic system: The use of drawing as a therapy medium / Jon Hunt
  • 5. Increasing effective communication using a total communication approach / Richard Lawson and Maggie Fawcus
  • pt. 2. Word Retrieval Therapies
  • 6. Introduction to Part 2: Therapies for word finding utilising orthographic relay strategies
  • 7. An intensive strategy-based therapy programme for impaired spelling / Jane Mortley
  • 8. Naming therapy for an aphasic person with fluent empty speech / Morwenna White-Thomson
  • 9. A treatment programme for an impairment in reading function words / Jenny Sheridan
  • pt. 3. "Beyond the Single Word" Therapies
  • 10. Introduction to Part 3: Therapies addressing impairments in processing verbs and sentences
  • 11. Doing something about a verb impairment: Two therapy approaches / Jane Marshall
  • 12. Early stages in treating a person with non-fluent aphasia / Alison Greenwood
  • 13. "Who ends up with the fiver?"
  • a sentence production therapy / Jane Marshall
  • 14. An informal example of a successful therapy for a sentence processing deficit / Kate Swinburn.