Speech Therapy Aphasia Rehabilitation

This workbook contains full color large photographs for a variety of exercises to improve expressive language function for people with aphasia. There are photographs of everyday objects with instructions and cues to help increase word finding ability. Photographs of famous places and objects target naming as well as provide a launching point to create discussion and increase conversation skills. The workbook contains safety awareness photographs to help with descriptive language skills as well as tackle new strategies to prevent falls secondary to unfamiliar physical challenges that many stroke survivors encounter. The workbook also contains photo sequences with cues to help increase discussion of steps involved in an action. There are photographs for comparison and discussion of pros and cons of multiple attributes. The final section provides multiple photographs with interesting details to stimulate conversation and improve expressive language therapy either at home or in a speech therapy setting.

Expressive and written language workbook for stroke survivors diagnosed with aphasia for use at home and therapy. Contains straightforward instructions for family members to use this workbook at home to increase expressive language of their loved one diagnosed with aphasia. Includes 70 full color photographs of functional objects to increase naming ability and full color photographs of scenes to increase descriptive language skills. Sections also include: carrier phrases, rote naming, divergent naming, convergent naming, functional writing exercises, reading exercises, "wh" questions, melodic intonation exercises and conversation exercises.

Aphasia Rehabilitation: Challenging Clinical Issues focuses on specific aphasia symptoms and clinical issues that present challenges for rehabilitation professionals. These topics are typically not addressed as separate topics, even in clinical texts. This heavily clinical text will also include thorough discussions of theoretical underpinnings. For chapters that focus on specific clinical challenges, practical suggestions to facilitate clinical application and maximize clinical usefulness. This resource integrates theoretical and practical information to aid a clinician in planning treatment for individuals with aphasia.

This workbook is for stroke survivors with aphasia to improve receptive language function. It contains a wide range of exercises appropriate for both individuals with severe deficits as well as those with mild receptive aphasia. The workbook contains: matching exercises, yes/no questions, "wh" questions, 1 step directions, multiple step directions, directions using functional materials and images, exercises targeting comprehension from sentence level up to short stories and functional math problems to improve attention and cognitive processing skills.

Workbook to target activities of daily living. Focusing on cognition, memory, attention, sequencing and problem solving skills. Targets everyday tasks: shopping, budgets, medication management, appointments, dining out, schedules and more.

"This clinician's manual for the treatment of the aphasic adult contains a selection of treatment tasks for the two primary communicative modalities -- auditory processing and verbal expression. The manual is divided into two major sections (auditory and verbal) with each section containing activities presented in a task hierarchy."--[v], (introduction).

This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder. Studies of the deficits underlying aphasia and the practice of aphasia rehabilitation have often diverged, and the relationship between theory and practice in aphasiology is loose. The goal of this book is to help close this gap by making explicit the relationship between what is to be rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it. Early chapters cover the history of aphasia and its therapy from Broca's discoveries to the 1970s, and provide a description of the classic aphasia syndromes. The middle section describes the contribution of cognitive neuropsychology and the treatment models it has inspired. It includes discussion of the relationship between the treatment approach and the functional model upon which it is based. The final chapters deal with aphasia therapy. After providing a sketch of a working theory of aphasia, Basso describes intervention procedures for disorders resulting from damage at the lexical and sentence levels as well as a more general conversation-based intervention for severe aphasics. Anna Basso has run an aphasia rehabilitation unit for more than thirty years. In this book she draws on her considerable experience to provide researchers, clinicians, and their students and trainees in speech-language pathology and therapy, aphasiology, and neuropsychology with comprehensive coverage of the evolution and state of the art of aphasia research and therapy.