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Storytelling for People with Aphasia

April 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Help individuals with aphasia organize and share meaningful personal experiences with this personal story mapping activity. This structured template supports storytelling, word retrieval, and self-expression, making it easier for clients to build narratives in therapy sessions.

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Hidden Picture Activity Targeting Velars and Affricates

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This activity provides an interactive, multi-modal way to target velars and affricates with a fun hidden picture component, and can be used in groups or individual sessions.

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Describing Similarities and Differences of Objects and Locations

October 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This higher-level language task requires a person to creatively describe how different objects or locations are similar and different.

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Script Training Treatment Guidance and Ideas

August 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout provides a step-by-step guide on how to use script training to support communication for people with aphasia and/or apraxia of speech.

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Constraint Induced Language Treatment (CILT) Kitchen Scene

May 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

Constraint induced language treatment (CILT) is a communication task that relies solely on verbal communication avoiding the use of compensatory strategies. This activity focuses on vocabulary related to a kitchen scene.

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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 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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Phonological Components Analysis

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Phonological components analysis (PCA) is a type of treatment for anomia. PCA is a phonology-based treatment that is related to speech sounds, fundamental components of language. This material provides the goal of PCA, research supporting PCA, and a diagram/the steps for completing PCA.

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