Language Intervention Strategies in Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Communication Disorders / Edition 5

by Roberta Chapey EdD

Overview

This thoroughly revised and updated Fifth Edition is the most comprehensive resource on aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders from the most distinguished authorities of our time. This classic text has been used by graduate speech language pathology students for over 25 years, and continues to be the definitive resource across the speech sciences for aphasia.

The book describes a wide range of intervention strategies including team treatment, group therapy, approaches for bilingual and culturally diverse clients, augmentative and alternative communication, and computer-assisted interventions. An important section addresses psychosocial/functional approaches to intervention. New to this edition are Activities for Discussion that encourage students to reflect on what they just read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780781769815
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	04/17/2008
Edition description:	Fifth
Pages:	1091
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Section I. BASIC CONSIDERATIONS

1. Introduction to Language Intervention Strategies in Adult Aphasia

2. Neural Basis of Language Disorders

3. Medical Aspects of Stroke Rehabilitation

4. Assessment of Language Disorders in Adults

Section II. PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE INTERVENTION

5. Research Principles for the Clinician

6. Aphasia Treatment: Recovery, Prognosis, and Clinical Effectiveness

7. Delivering Language Intervention Services to Adults with Neurogenic Communication Disorders

8. Teams and Partnerships in Aphasia Intervention

9. Aphasia Assessment and Treatment for Bilingual and
Culturally Diverse Patients

Section III.PSYCHOSOCIAL/FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES
TO INTERVENTION: FOCUS ON IMPROVING
ABILITY TO PERFORM COMMUNICATION
ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING

10. Life Participation Approach to Aphasia: A Statement of
Values for the Future

11. Social Approaches to Aphasia Intervention

12. Environmental Systems Approach to Adult Aphasia

13. Treating Life Consequences of Aphasia's Chronicity

14. Group Therapy for Aphasia:
Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Section IV.TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE
INTERVENTION

15. Schuell's Stimulation Approach to Rehabilitation

16. Thematic Language Stimulation Therapy

17. Cognitive Stimulation: Stimulation of Recognition/Comprehension,
Memory, and Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Thinking

18. Early Management of Wernicke's Aphasia: A Context-Based Approach

19. Rehabilitation of Subcortical Aphasia

20. Primary Progressive Aphasia

21. Critical Intervention for Global Aphasia

22. Cognitive Neuropsychological Approaches to Rehabilitation of Language Disorders: Introduction

23. Cognitive Approaches to Impairments of Word
Comprehension and Production

24. Cognitive Neuropsychological Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment:
Production and Comprehension of Sentences

25. Comprehension and Production of Written Words

26. Language Rehabilitation from a Neural Perspective

28. Language Oriented Treatment: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Aphasia

29. Treatment of Aphasia Subsequent to the Porch Index of Communicative Ability (PICA)

30. Augmentative and Alternative Communication for People with Aphasia

31. Melodic Intonation Therapy

32. Computer Applications in Aphasia Treatment

Section V. THERAPY FOR ASSOCIATED NEUROPATHOLOGIES OF
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE RELATED FUNCTIONS

33. Communication Disorders Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury

34. Communication Disorders Associated with Right Hemisphere damage

35. Management of Neurogenic Communication
Disorders Associated with Dementia

36. Nature and Treatment of Neuromotor Speech Disorders in Aphasia

APPENDIX 36.1  Consonant Production Probe

APPENDIX 36.2  Example of Lists of Balanced Multisyllabic Words

APPENDIX 36.3  Examples of Sentence Completion Items

APPENDIX 36.4 Metronome and Hand-tapping Treatment

APPENDIX 36.5 Eight-Step Continuum

APPENDIX 36.6 Original Sound Production Treatment Hierarchy

APPENDIX 36.7 Modified Sound Production Treatment

Author Index

Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Aimee R Dietz, Ph.D.(University of Cincinnati College of Allied Health Sciences)
Description: An improvement in this edition of a compilation of both the history and the future of aphasia interventions is the increased support for the notion that aphasia is cognitively based. Additionally, this book provides the foundation for clinicians to learn about restorative and compensatory intervention approaches for people with aphasia and related disorders.
Purpose: The purpose of the fifth edition is to bring together significant thoughts on intervention and to stimulate further developments in the remediation of adults with aphasia, "according to the editor. She has successfully assimilated current research and continued development of intervention and assessment tools in the field of aphasia, traumatic brain injury (TBI), dementia, and right-hemisphere syndrome."
Audience: Clinicians of all levels are the target audience. The standalone chapters could be successfully used independently depending on the purpose of a class or a clinician's caseload. The editor and the contributing authors are respected aphasiology researchers and clinicians at heart.
Features: This book can serve as a guide to clinicians when planning the assessment of and intervention for people with aphasia, TBI, right hemisphere syndrome, and dementia. It helps readers to provide services that are embedded in a social construct regardless of the type of intervention (i.e., restorative, compensatory/augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), or combined). Some of the unique features include a description and examples of diagnostic and treatment SOAP notes and incorporation of Blackstone & Berg's Social Networks (2003) into the assessment chapter. The chapter on communication-based interventions also provides an up-to-date summary of the current state of the science of AAC and aphasia and offers ideas to help clinicians understand how restoration and compensation/AAC interventions can be jointly implemented from day one. An inconsistency that occurs throughout the book is the failure to provide current references in some instances. In some chapters, authors provide few, if any, updated references from the previous edition published in 2001. (It should be noted, however, that some chapters discuss important, historically based interventions that have not been extensively researched in recent years, such as Schuell's stimulation approach to rehabilitation.) In other chapters, authors have not updated incidence and prevalence numbers from the previous edition, while other authors have not updated references to include new treatment approaches that are now available.
Assessment: However, this fifth edition is the most comprehensive book available for clinicians of all levels seeking assessment and intervention ideas for people with aphasia and related disorders.

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