Cognitive and cognate-based treatments for bilingual aphasia: a case study.
Two consecutive treatments were conducted to investigate skill learning and generalization within and across cognitive-linguistic domains in a 62-year-old Spanish-English bilingual man with severe non-fluent aphasia. Treatment 1 was a cognitive-based treatment that emphasized non-linguistic skills, such as visual scanning, categorization, and simple arithmetic. Treatment 2 was a lexically based treatment that trained cognates (cross-linguistic word pairs that are similar in meaning and form, such as rosa/rose) and non-cognates (cross-linguistic word pairs with shared meaning but different forms, such as mesa/table). Treatment 1 resulted in modest gains in both Spanish and English. Treatment 2 resulted in improved naming for non-cognates as well as cognates within each language. However, the generalization of gains from Spanish to English was apparent only for cognate stimuli.
Kohnert
Kathryn
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Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, 115 Shevlin Hall, 164 Pillsbury Dr., S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. kohne005@umn.edu
D001037:Aphasia / Q000628:therapy*; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019303:Multilingualism; D013070:Speech Therapy