Archives

It would be more time and cost-effective if clinicians were able to better predict the prognosis for patients. However, this continues to be challenging for clinicians and the current research has not provided clear answers to help. In the research studies, the concept of recovery is not consistently defined which makes it difficult for applying […]

This study focuses on patient’s use of self- administered cues through a software program called Constant Therapy. The use of self- administered cues provides detailed information about the patient’s insight into his/her impairment and ability to independently complete a language task. There are important factors that need to be present for the successful use of […]

A “feature analysis chart” is used during SFA to identify semantic features for an item (action, use, location, properties, associations) to increase word retrieval abilities. A picture is used during this therapy to encourage the patient to answer the semantic features on a chart for the picture. The SLP provides more cues, then fades them […]

Prior research has suggested there are two neural pathways to support recovery from Broca’s aphasia. One pathway involves the recruitment of perilesional cortex in the left hemisphere and may get some input from the right hemisphere for language recovery. However only small left hemisphere lesions can have enough of the Broca’s areas remaining to support […]

All participants in the study were previously seen and diagnosed with PPA at three separate memory clinics in Toronto. All were awaiting services for PPA on a waiting list, and the first five listed and their caregivers were placed in the Treatment group, with the next five after them placed in the Control group. The […]

Initial steps of the study were to recruit one participant identified as “Mrs. M,” a 59-year- old female experiencing apraxic agraphia after a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in her left anterior artery. Assessment and intervention occurred two months after the infarct. After admittance the attending SLP during her acute care reported Mrs. M’s language abilities to […]

Participants included in the study all were diagnosed with mild aphasia/ dysgraphia, assessed with the Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT) and found to be at mild/within normal limits, and had no history of learning disabilities or drug abuse. Three participants total were ultimately selected, one male (P1) and two females (P2/P3), with a mean age […]

In this study, the experiment was broken out into two phases. The first phase included participants included college-age adults without aphasia as a control group. 32students’ (24 women and 8 men) eyes were tracked with a Tobii eye-tracker as they were asked to respond to wh- questions with 65 action pictures. An example of this […]