Aphasia Treatment - Writing

Question 1

Different writing treatments

Answer 1

1. ACT
2. CART
3. Interactive treatment
4. Phonological dysgraphia treatment
5. problem solving approach

Question 2

CART

Answer 2

Copy and Retell Treatment (CART)* - (Beeson)

-for pt with deep dysgraphia (trouble with sound-letter correspondence & lexical -semnatic route)

—lexical spelling tx to strength the orthographic representations of a specific word ….also aims at strengthening the phoneme-grapheme conversion route

1. pt presented with a picture and asked to write the name
2. SLP represents written model of the word & ask pt to copy x3
3. SLP removes copy and ask pt to recall and write word again

Question 3

ACT

Answer 3

ANAGRAM & COPY TREATMENT* (Beeson et al.)

-for pt with deep dysgraphia

1. pt shown picture and asked to write word
2. presents anagram tiles out of order and ask pt to organize
3. copy word x3
4. do it again with 4 foil letters and ask pt to use them to spell the word correctly

Question 4

tx for phonological dysgraphia

Answer 4

– some therapies try to elictly teach rules:
…“c” rule: c rule before a, o, u, is pronounced as a /k/

-other therapies simply expose readers to words and non words, embodying regularities of one or more GPC rules

Question 5

Interactive Treatment

Answer 5

***(Beeson et al.,)

-purpose is to strengthen the interactive use of orthography and phonology

Goal: to improve spelling accuracy by increasing self-detection and correction of errors

approach:

1. use residual or re-trained phonology to sound-out plausible spellings
2. identify and correct errors
3. use of electronic spell-check for self-correctoion

—listen to the word, repeat it, try to spell it, look at it careful and make corrections until you are as close as you can get….enter it into the spell checker…choose correct spelling and then write word and copy spelling