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CILT is an aphasia treatment incorporating neuroplasticity through forced verbal response and an intensive treatment schedule. With CILT, people with aphasia (PWA) must use verbal speech with tasks because they cannot use other multimodal forms of communication, such as gestures, writing, or drawing, to support communication. CILT is a high-intensity treatment typically scheduled for three […]

Damage to the dominant temporoparietal cortex, causing Wernicke’s or global aphasia, can resist conventional treatment methods. There is a deficit in auditory phonological analysis for Wernicke’s aphasia. Therapy often involves auditory discrimination training with phonemes, consonant-vowel-consonant segments, or longer sound sequences. There has been limited research for individuals with moderate to severe Wernicke’s aphasia because […]

The SLP’s expertise can help implement aphasia-friendly communication strategies and environmental adaptations to facilitate increased participation in therapy, outcomes, and home programs. Some aphasia-friendly written material modifications could include abundant white space, photographs, simplified vocabulary, simplified syntax, and larger font size. People with aphasia often prefer these adjustments to increase their reading comprehension. Having personalized […]

The “Cookie Theft” picture from the BDAE has been widely used for a picture description task to analyze cognitive-linguistic factors of spoken language. These picture descriptions provide opportunities to capture deficits in language, social communication, spatial attention, and prosody. The BDAE has provided guidelines for identifying cognitive-linguistic deficits for individuals with Williams syndrome, primary progressive […]