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Assessment and Management of Apraxic Agraphia (2015)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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 […]
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Treatment Method: Attentive Reading with Constrained Summarization-Written (2018)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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 […]
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The Auditory Comprehension of Wh- Questions in Aphasia (2015)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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 […]
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Written Expression Tasks

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This therapy task features two functional tasks, the first one targeting single words and the second task targeting sentence level production.
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Word-Finding Strategies

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout visualizes 9 strategies patients can use when they get stuck and can’t find the word they want. Pair this handout with therapy tasks targeting word-finding.
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Word Finding Tables

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
A word-finding task based on categories and alphabet.
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Word Association Web

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This activity has a variety of words in a web format in which a patient has to generate a target word that is associated with the two words that it is sandwiched between.
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Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is the rarest form of aphasia and is a neurodegenerative disease. There are three variants of PPA. This handout will specifically focus on the logopenic variant of PPA and given some examples of how it may look for speech and language tasks.
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Global Aphasia

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout defines global aphasia and provides some suggestions for care partners to help the person and reduce communication frustrations.
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Anomic Aphasia

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Anomic aphasia is one subtype under the aphasia umbrella. Through reading this handout, patients and family members will learn more about anomic aphasia and how some word-finding compensatory strategies can be used to help.
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