Mapping therapy for sentence production impairments in nonfluent aphasia

Rochon, E., Laird, L., Bose, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0193-5292 and Scofield, J. (2005) Mapping therapy for sentence production impairments in nonfluent aphasia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 15 (1). pp. 1-36. ISSN 1464-0694 doi: 10.1080/09602010343000327

Abstract/Summary

This study investigated a new treatment in which sentence production abilities were trained in a small group of individuals and nonfluent aphasia. It was based upon a mapping therapy approach which holds that sentence production and comprehension impairments are due to difficulties in mapping between the meaning form (thematic roles) and the syntactic form of sentences. We trained production of both canonical and noncanonical reversible sentences.Three patients received treatment and two served as control participants. Patients who received treatment demonstrated acquisition of all trained sentence structures. They also demonstrated across-task generalisation of treated and some untreated sentence structures on two tasks of constrained sentence production, and showed some improvements on a narrative task. One control participant improved on some of these measures and the other did not. There was no noted improvement in sentence comprehension abilities following treatment. Results are discussed with reference to the heterogeneity of underlying impairments in sentence production impairments in nonfluent patients, and the possible mechanisms by which improvement in sentence production might have been achieved in treatment.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/21996
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/09602010343000327
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
Publisher	Psychology Press
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