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Vegetables and Prepositions: A Deductive Language Activity

December 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This interactive activity supports individuals with aphasia in practicing vocabulary related to vegetables and spatial prepositions through expressive and receptive language exercises. Engage clients in a fun, targeted way that strengthens communication skills within their specific vocabulary goals.
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Treatment of Wernicke’s Aphasia

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource provides guidance for treating receptive language impairment, a cornerstone impairment for a person with Wernicke’s aphasia.
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What is Wernicke’s Aphasia?

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Wernicke’s aphasia is when a person has difficulty comprehending what others say. This material provides helpful communication tips to support comprehension.
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Working Memory Practice

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This activity allows for the practice of this everyday skill and can help train the use of strategies if needed.
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Comparative and Sequential Yes/No Questions

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
These yes/no questions are more grammatically complex. They focus on everyday activities and do not require math to answer. Could be used as an auditory or reading comprehension task.
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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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Verbal Reasoning and Problem Solving Task

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
For patients working on addressing verbal reasoning skills, this structured therapy task includes verbal prompts to optimize executive functioning, auditory processing, and verbal expression skills.
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Using Maps for Language Recovery

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This utilizes maps for different functional language activities targeting verbal expression, auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, and written expression. Includes a basic map and a more advanced map to serve different cognitive levels.
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Two Language Tasks for Constraint-Induced Language Therapy (CILT)

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Constraint-induced language therapy relies on solely verbal communication, avoiding the use of compensatory strategies such as gesturing, drawing, writing, etc. The two tasks included in this product force patients to use only verbal language to either A) put pictures of objects in a particular order, or B) place objects in the correct location within a blank scene.
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TED.com for Language Treatment

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
TED.com can be used as a language treatment tool for individuals with aphasia. The videos can be used to address verbal expression, auditory comprehension, written expression, and reading comprehension goals with familiar and new topics. This handout explains how to address the patient’s treatment goals with this online resource.
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