A Case of Conduction Aphasia who Resumed Work as a High School English Teacher

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  • 高校英語教諭への原職復帰を果たした伝導失語の一例

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<p>  In Japan, patients with aphasia experience a variety of challenges in their pursuit of employment opportunities, and supportive measures for such individuals have not been established. Here, we describe the case of a high school English teacher with conduction aphasia who was provided outpatient employment support as well as speech and language therapy. The patientʼs main symptoms included verbal short-term memory disorder and phonemic paraphasia. His wife accompanied him to the weekly language therapy sessions with the objective of sharing information with people at his workplace in the form of written progress reports. His efforts to resume teaching were aided by enabling him to discern grammatical clauses in the written material in the textbooks by adding slashes to the text and adding phonetic characters beside the kanji characters for low-frequency words. These compensatory techniques were designed to help him deal with his problem in reading aloud. A speech-language-hearing therapist accompanied him to his workplace during the rehabilitation program and conducted conferences with his supervisor, coworkers, and other relevant individuals. Fifteen months after the onset, he resumed his original job, with the understanding that he would teach only the first-year class. No adverse event has been reported as of 14 months since his return to work. This experience indicated that it is possible for an English teacher with conduction aphasia, who uses several language resources, to resume work if the characteristics of his/her language-related symptoms are assessed and he/she is taught compensatory techniques appropriate to his/her workplace.</p>

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