Guest Lectures of the 30th Conference at Matsuyama on May 22-23, 2004 Assessment and Therapy for Disorders of Word Retrieval: the Contribution of Cognitive Neuropsychology

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  • 第30回 日本コミュニケーション障害学会学術講演会 教育講演4 語想起障害に対する評価と治療:認知神経心理学の貢献

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Difficulties in word-finding are almost always found in people with aphasia and are a major impediment to real life communication. Effective therapy for these disorders is, therefore, a major concern for aphasia therapists. Cognitive neuropsychology has stimulated significant advances over the last twenty years in our understanding of the nature of these disorders and how they can be treated. This paper, first, describes how cognitive neuropsychology can be used to identify the nature of the underlying deficit in word retrieval, using converging information from (i) the variables affecting performance, (ii) performance in other tasks, and (iii) the nature of errors in production. The results of this assessment should yield information both about the nature of impaired abilities but also about remaining processing strengths. The next section then reviews a number of different kinds of therapy for disorders of word retrieval. It is argued that a variety of different therapy techniques including both ‘semantic’ and ‘lexical/phonological’ therapy operate by strengthening the mapping between meaning and word form, and have item-specific effects. In contrast therapies that improve phonological assembly, or involve using relatively intact spelling abilities to support spoken word production have effects that generalise to words not targeted during treatment.

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  • CRID
    1390282680178871296
  • NII Article ID
    10015684716
  • NII Book ID
    AA11835698
  • DOI
    10.11219/jjcomdis2003.22.18
  • ISSN
    18847048
    13478451
  • Text Lang
    ja
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    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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