Assessment Tools and Rehabilitation Treatments for Aprosodia Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Scoping Review

Autor/inn/en	Benedetti, Valentina; Weill-Chounlamountry, Agnès; Pradat-Diehl, Pascale; Villain, Marie
Titel	Assessment Tools and Rehabilitation Treatments for Aprosodia Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Scoping Review
Quelle	In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 57 (2022) 3, S.474-496 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-2822
DOI	10.1111/1460-6984.12692
Schlagwörter	Head Injuries; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Neurological Impairments; Suprasegmentals; Pathology; Physiology; Comprehension; Therapy; Affective Behavior; Rehabilitation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kopfverletzung; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Pathologie; Physiologie; Verstehen; Verständnis; Therapie; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung
Abstract	Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI), especially to the right hemisphere, can result in difficulty using or understanding prosodic contours in speech. Prosody is used to convey emotional connotation or linguistic intent and includes pitch, loudness, rate, and voice quality. A disorder in the comprehension or production of prosody is known as aprosodia; despite the communication disability caused by prosodic disorders, the assessment and treatment of aprosodia following ABI has received scant attention. Aims: The aim of this scoping review is to gather and synthesise useful knowledge on aprosodia and provide therapists with an exhaustive document in order to guide clinical decision-making encouraging active identification and treatment of this disorder. Methods & Procedures: This scoping review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA-ScR guidelines, investigated the existing literature concerning the assessment and treatments of linguistic and affective aprosodia in adult patients after ABI. A systematic search in four electronic databases (PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, ScienceDirect) was conducted for articles written in English, French, or Italian published between 1970 and 2020. After all evaluative criteria were applied, 15 articles were included for final review. Outcomes & Results: Results show the presence of six assessment tools for affective aprosodia and five evaluation tools targeting affective and linguistic prosody. Assessment of aprosodia is generally accomplished through acoustic and perceptual approaches. Current treatments for prosodic disorders focus on expressive aprosodia and have applied mostly two different approaches: imitative and cognitive-linguistic methods. Conclusion & Implications: Findings suggest that aprosodia can be assessed by therapists through various techniques and may be amenable to behavioural treatments. Nevertheless, although there are several assessment tools available, no one currently offers a comprehensive assessment that incorporates an ecological dimension. It therefore seems necessary to continue research in this direction. The rehabilitation of receptive prosody abilities also remains to be explored. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01