title: Simulated in-home teletreatment for anomia.
abstract: This pilot study explored the feasibility of in-home teletreatment for patients with post-stroke anomia. Three participants over 65 years of age suffering from post-stroke anomia were treated in this pre/post-intervention case study. They received 12 speech therapy teletreatments (two sessions/week for 6 weeks) aimed at improving confrontation naming skills. Half of the failed items from a set of 120 preselected stimuli were trained during treatment (Block A-trained stimuli) while the other half served as controls (Block B-untrained stimuli). Variables measured were: 1) efficacy of treatment (performance on Block-A vs. Block B Stimuli), and 2) participants' satisfaction with teletreatment (using a French adaptation of the Telemedicine satisfaction questionnaire). All participants showed a clinically relevant improvement on confrontation naming of trained items and less improvement for untrained items. The researchers also obtained high satisfaction scores on the questionnaire (above 57/60). This pilot study supports the feasibility of speech therapy teletreatments applied to neurological language disorders.
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Lambert
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dechêne
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tousignant
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Boissy
authors.affiliation: Laval University, Faculty of Medicine, Québec, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Joël
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Macoir
authors.affiliation: CSSS Du Lac-Des-Deux-Montagnes, Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Serge
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Héroux
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamel
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brière
authors.affiliation: Research Centre on Aging, Sherbrooke Geriatric University Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pagé
keywords: Anomia; aphasia; speech therapy; stroke; telepractice; teletreatment