The Aphasia Therapy File: Volume 1

by Byng, Sally; Pound, Carole; Swinburn, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780203193556
• ISBN10: 0203193555
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

A practical resource handbook based on speech and language therapy. It presents a collection of explicit descriptions about therapy interventions, rationale for therapy, and evaluation of the outcomes.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section 1

Introduction: When There's No Spoken Output

Needs, Function and Measurement: Juggling with Multiple Language Impairment

Drawing on the Semantic System: The Use of Drawing as a Therapy Medium with a Woman with Severe Expressive Aphasia

Increasing Effective Communication Using a Total Communication Approach

Word Retrieval Therapies

Introduction: Therapies for Word Finding Utilising Orthographic Relay Strategies

Evaluating the Efficacy of an Intensive Strategy Based Therapy Programme for Spelling Impairment

Naming Therapy for an Aphasiac with Fluent Empty Speech

A Treatment Programme for an Impairment in Reading Function Words

Section 3

Doing Something About Verbs and Sentences: Two Therapy Approaches

Early Stages in Treating a Person with Non-fluent Aphasia

`Who Ends Up With the Fiver?' A Sentence Production Therapy

An Informal Example of a Successful Therapy or a Sentence Processing Deficit.

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