Development of a Theoretically Based Treatment for Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Individuals with Aphasia

Autor/inn/en	Kiran, Swathi; Caplan, David; Sandberg, Chaleece; Levy, Joshua; Berardino, Alex; Ascenso, Elsa; Villard, Sarah; Tripodis, Yorghos
Titel	Development of a Theoretically Based Treatment for Sentence Comprehension Deficits in Individuals with Aphasia
Quelle	In: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21 (2012) 2, (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1058-0360
DOI	10.1044/1058-0360(2012/11-0106)
Schlagwörter	Reading Difficulties; Sentences; Aphasia; Object Manipulation; Comprehension; Objective Tests; Task Analysis; Performance Based Assessment; Pretests Posttests; Sentence Structure; Effect Size; Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); Outcomes of Treatment; Intervention; Screening Tests; Pictorial Stimuli; Adult Education; Speech Language Pathology; Raven Progressive Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Verstehen; Verständnis; Objektiver Test; Aufgabenanalyse; Leistungsermittlung; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Screening-Verfahren; Fantasieanregung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	Purpose: Two new treatments, 1 based on sentence to picture matching (SPM) and the other on object manipulation (OM), that train participants on the thematic roles of sentences using pictures or by manipulating objects were piloted. Method: Using a single-subject multiple-baseline design, sentence comprehension was trained on the affected sentence type in 1 task-related protocol in 15 participants with aphasia. The 2 tasks were SPM and OM; the treatment stimuli were object relatives, object clefts, passives, and unaccusatives, as well as two control structures--object relatives with a complex noun phrase (NP) and active sentences with three NPs. Results: The criteria for efficacious treatment was an increase in the level of performance from the pretreatment probes to the posttreatment probes for the treated structure such that accuracy rose from at or below chance to above chance and either (a) accuracy rose by 33% or (b) the effect size was 2.6. Based on these criteria, the success rate for training the target structure was 2/6 participants in the SPM condition and 4/7 participants in the OM condition. Conclusion: The outcome of this study illustrates the utility of this theoretically motivated and efficacious treatment for sentence comprehension deficits in individuals with aphasia. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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