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Peer reviewedHorner, Jennifer – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
The article describes an approach to aphasia description and intervention based on analysis of speech pauses and hesitations. The concepts of pause, planning, and paraphasia (a language production error involving substitution or replacement) are distinguished. Three case studies illustrate application of the technique. (DB)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Expressive Language, Intervention, Speech Evaluation
Peer reviewedLyon, Jon G.; Helm-Estabrooks, Nancy – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
Drawing as therapy for the expressively restricted aphasic adult is discussed with sections on: drawing and acquired brain damage, communication through drawing in aphasia, and training expressively restricted aphasic patients to draw communicatively by use of the Lyon/Sims Program. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedDunn, Nancy D.; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1989
Nonfluent and fluent dysphasic subjects (N=22) and nondysphasic subjects (N=20) were assessed on tasks of word fluency and picture-naming. Results showed that clinical language examinations should utilize contexts other than naming tasks for detecting the presence of word retrieval problems and for differentiating the two polar types of dysphasia.…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests
