Elizabeth Cardell, Melissa Lawrie
This book provides clinicians with evidence-based therapy tasks to enhance naming and word-finding abilities in people with aphasia. The resource addresses the clinical questions of not just “what” to do, but “why” it is being done, and “how” to do it.
This resource provides the clinician with tasks that are known to strengthen the link between the semantic system and the phonological output lexicon. The development of the treatment tasks has adhered to current models of psycholinguistic processing and current impairment-based aphasia treatment efficacy research. The tasks items are controlled for word frequency, imageability, and length.
Some important and novel features of this therapy resource are that it provides the clinician with:
In addition, there is repetition and integration of key naming items across different therapy tasks to enhance and reinforce learning, in line with current cognitive learning theory.
The resource uses illustrations and includes: