Aphasia Treatment Approaches
The goal is to uncover the inherent melody in speech to gain fluency and increase expressive output
What is Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT)?
The goal is to ______ lost language abilities.
What is restore?
Both partners use identified strategies to achieve successful communication of the information.
What is Step Number 3?
This is the delusional belief that a familiar person is able to take on the guise of another person, at times many other people, and assume their exact appearance.
What is Fregoli Delusion?
This is the inability to perceive visual stimuli due to damage to the CNS, not damage to the optic nerve or eyes
What is Visual Agnosia?
Involves description of a target item (picture in the center of a template) which enables the patient to generate features
What is Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)?
The goal is to ______ intact communication skills.
What is strengthen?
Identify effective strategies for conversation for each partner. Create a hierarchy of strategies to try if needed. Have each partner “teach-back” to you to ensure understanding
What is Step 1?
This is a nonverbal treatment approach that trains individuals to use hand gestures to indicate visually absent items
What is Visual Action Therapy (VAT)?
This is the inability to visually perceive multiple details at one time, often due to lesion at parietal-occipital area
What is Simultagnosia?
Semantic treatment that aims to improve lexical retrieval of content words in sentences by promoting systematic retrieval of verbs
What is Verb Network Strength Training (VNest)?
The goal is to _______for impairments by teaching strategies and using AAC.
What is compensate?
Create communication situation (real-life or video clip) while one member is out of room
What is Step 2?
These are visual and/or auditory hallucinations.
What are paranoid hallucinations?
This is the inability to recognize faces in the absence of other visual agnosias?
What is prosopagnosia?
Pairs writing treatment with repeated oral naming practice to improve written and oral naming of target words
What is Copy and Recall Treatment (CART)?
The goal is to ___________ caregivers to communicate more effectively.
What is train?
Clinician provides feedback as a coach to the two partners; both positive feedback and coaching for using strategies
What is Step 4?
This approach targets to increase the length and information content of verbal responses
What is Response Elaboration Treatment (RET)?
DAILY DOUBLE: Those with right hemisphere deficits are less able to interpret facial expressions and identify emotions conveyed on the faces of speakers. This is because the _________ allows us to evaluate facial expressions.
What is the right hemisphere?
Picture prompts for conversational messages are hidden from the listener (similar to a barrier task), and the speaker uses his or her choice of modalities for conveying messages
What is Promoting Aphasics' Communication Effectiveness (PACE)?
The goal is to _______ generalization of skills to various contexts
What is facilitation?
DAILY DOUBLE: During this approach, the clinician acts as a communication strategy coach for both partners (with and without aphasia)
What is Conversational Coaching?
This is the belief that loved ones, significant others, or family members have been replaced by imposters who look and sound like the original person
What are Capgras Delusions?
This is the rare loss of color vision due to trauma or damage to the cortex. This is also known as color agnosia.
What is cerebral achromatopsia?