global aphasia Archives – Therapy Insights

Visual Action Therapy for Global Aphasia

April 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Visual Action Therapy (VAT) is a treatment approach for aphasia when a person has global impairments of all language modalities. It incorporates training use of gestures for non-verbal communication of wants and needs.

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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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Personalized Aphasia Pocket Cards for Global, Anomic, and Mixed Non-Fluent Aphasia

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.

These business-card sized wallet cards provide information about the specific type of aphasia, ways to support communication with the individual, and important personal information for the person with aphasia.

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Types of Aphasia and their Neurological Correlates

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout visualizes the ways that aphasia may present given a particular brain lesion. The handout describes the common signs and symptoms of these types of aphasia: Anomic, conduction, Wernicke’s, transcortical motor, Broca’s, and global.

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