Sentence level auditory comprehension treatment program for aphasic adults.
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a newly developed sentence level auditory comprehension (SLAC) treatment program could be used to improve language comprehension test scores in adults with chronic aphasia. Results indicate that the SLAC treatment program can be used with chronic patients; performance on a standardized test (the Token Test) was improved after treatment; and improved performance could not be predicted from either anatomic CT scan lesion sites or pretreatment test scores. One advantage to the SLAC treatment program is that the patient can practice listening independently with a tape recorder device (Language Master) and earphones either in the hospital or at home.
D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013637:Tape Recording; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed