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The Phonomotor Approach to Treating Phonological-Based Language Deficits in People with Aphasia
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Kendall, Diane L.; Nadeau, Stephen E. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2016
The phonomotor treatment program for treating word-retrieval deficits among people with aphasia is inspired by a parallel distributed processing model of lexical processing and is focused at the level of individual phonemes and phoneme sequences. Because verbal production of words involves the translation of a lexical-semantic representation into…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Lexicology, Phonology, Language Impairments
Distinctions between Two Phonological Output Deficits.
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Kohn, Susan E.; Smith, Katherine L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Two aphasics with a similar level of phonological production difficulty are compared to distinguish the properties of disruption to two stages in the phonological system for producing single words: activation of stored lexical-phonological representations versus construction of phonemic representations. A set of distinguishing behavioral features…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Are There Distinct Input and Output Buffers? Evidence from an Aphasic Patient with an Impaired Output Buffer.
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Romani, Cristina – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
An aphasic patient is described as one whose poor repetition of sentences and of lists of words contrasts with his or her surprisingly good performance on immediate problem recognition tasks. This result is interpreted as suggesting a distinction between phonological input and output buffers. (41 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Working Papers in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Volume XII.
City Univ. of New York, Flushing. Queens Coll. Dept. of Communication Arts and Sciences. – 1984
Seven papers report on speech language pathology and audiology studies performed by graduate students. The first paper reports on intelligibility of two popular synthetic speech systems used in communication aids for the speech impaired, the Votrax Personal Speech System and the Echo II synthesizer. The second paper reports facilitation of tense…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Audiology, Black Dialects, Communication Disorders
Neuropsychological Approaches to the Study of Language.
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Saffran, Eleanor M. – British Journal of Psychology, 1982
Discusses recent studies of aphasia from the perspective of theories of normal language structure and processing. Patterns of language breakdown are considered to reflect the componential structure of the language system. Brain damage is seen to fractionate language along lines suggested by existing psycholinguistic models. (Author)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
An Investigation of the Characteristics, Distribution and Program Needs of Children with Severe Communication Disorders.
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Morgan, Griffith A. V.; And Others – 1978
The report presents information from a survey of the needs and characteristics of children with severe communication disorders in Ontario and the programs available to serve them. It is explained that information was gathered from structured interviews with principals, teachers, and 28 parents of language handicapped children, as well as visits to…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Autism, Communication Disorders, Evaluation Methods