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Peer reviewedKiran, Swathi; Thompson, Cynthia K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
The effect of typicality of category exemplars on naming was investigated using a single subject experimental design across participants and behaviors in four patients with fluent aphasia. Patients trained on naming of atypical exemplars demonstrated generalization to naming of intermediate and typical items. However, patients trained on typical…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Children, Generalization
Peer reviewedBallard, Kirrie J.; Thompson, Cynthia K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
This study, with five adults diagnosed with Broca's aphasia with agrammatism, evaluated the acquisition and generalization of complex-sentence production using Linguistic Specific Treatment (LST) and the utility of syntactic theory in evaluating treatment effects. The study's findings support the use of LST, which applies syntactic theory to…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Generalization, Language Impairments
