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Middleton, Erica L.; Schwartz, Myrna F.; Rawson, Katherine A.; Garvey, Kelly – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Because individuals with acquired language disorders are frequently unable to reliably access the names of common everyday objects (i.e., naming impairment), rehabilitation efforts often focus on improving naming. The present study compared 2 rehabilitation strategies for naming impairment, reflecting contradictory prescriptions derived from…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Rehabilitation, Learning, Naming
Reinvang, Ivar – 1985
The use of a traditional syndrome-classification system for aphasics is examined critically from the different perspectives of medicine and psychometrics. Medicine views syndromes as dichotomous (present or not present) and necessarily indicative of an underlying pathognomic state or process, and psychometrics sees performances as varying along a…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis