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 first book provides the clinician with tasks that are known to strengthen the link between the semantic system and the phonological output lexicon.
Key Features
- Theoretical descriptions of how each task might be influencing the language processing system.
- Detailed instructions about tasks and how to teach-on-error.
- Structure for monitoring progress and moving clients to higher or lower treatment levels.
- A means through which the rate of presentation can be controlled and manipulated.
- Repetition and integration of key naming items across different therapy tasks to enhance and reinforce learning, in line with current cognitive learning theory.
Additional Information
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. The resource uses illustrations and includes:
- A treatment manual containing all information and worksheets.
- A CD with a copy of all worksheets, as well as computerised naming, oral reading, and repetition tasks.
Ages: All
A4 wire-o-bound book + CD
