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PHONOLOGICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF WORD RETRIEVAL IN APHASIA
Author(s) -
Herbert Ruth,
Best Wendy,
Hickin Julie,
Howard David,
Osborne Felicity
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682820109177850
Subject(s) - psychology , aphasia , word (group theory) , cued speech , phonology , task (project management) , term (time) , orthographic projection , word recognition , cognitive psychology , natural language processing , linguistics , reading (process) , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , physics , management , quantum mechanics , economics
We present a preliminary report on a study of the treatment of word finding difficulties in aphasia using phonological and orthographic cues. These techniques although often used to cue word finding in the immediate term have been little evaluated in terms of therapy designed to improve word retrieval in the long term. The first phase using cued word retrieval in a picture naming task was followed by a second phase designed to facilitate use of treated words in real‐life contexts. The results from both phases were encouraging with improved word retrieval for three out of the four participants. The implications for clinical practice are discussed.