Aphasia Treatment -Verbal Expression & Group Treatment

Question 1

VNEST

Answer 1

Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (Edmonds)

**good for nonfluent aphasics who do not use a lot of verbs

-produce 3 agent-verb-object pairs and then create sentences and answers WH-questions

Question 2

MIT

Answer 2

Melodic Intonation Therapy (Sparks, Helm & Albert)

** use with confluent aphasics with limited verbal output – with stronger auditory comprehension with good attention

..improves expressive langauge output and fluency by utilizing the inherent melody and rhythm of speech and stimulating language-capable regions in the R hemisphere

Question 3

CILT

Answer 3

Constraint induced Langauge Therapy (Pulvermuller et al.)

–use for chronic aphasia, exclude poor aud comp

—language production through masses practice — intensive and constraint of compensatory (non-verbal) communication strategies

Question 4

Group treatment effectiveness cite

Answer 4

Wertz et al.

–group treatment is cost-effective and should be included as a part of aphasics-care

—promotes socialization, group support