title: Process-oriented treatment of right hemisphere communication disorders.
abstract: Lacking knowledge about the cognitive processes that underlie communication impairments in patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) and driven by increasingly limited treatment duration, speech-language pathologists often give little thought to process-oriented treatment. However, operating from a theoretical perspective in which treatment targets the processes that underlie symptoms can result in more effective treatment of a range of symptoms due to a common processing impairment. This article provides research-driven therapeutic approaches based on sound theoretical perspectives that can be combined with task-specific therapy to maximize therapeutic outcomes with this clinical population.
authors.affiliation: Division of Speech Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Myers
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003147:Communication Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans