This article presents a brief overview of aphasia, followed by a summary of research studies
and program evaluation data addressed to answering the question of the efficacy of …

An extensive search of aphasia-treatment literature yielded 55 reports of clinical outcomes
satisfying the essential criteria for inclusion in a meta-analysis. The results confirmed those …

A meta-analysis of research findings is reported on the effectiveness of treatments for
persons suffering aphasia. Twenty-one studies provided sufficient information for inclusion …

Originally published in 1987, Aphasia Therapy surveys the approaches to aphasia treatment
from throughout the world that have been taken both in the past and in the present day. The …

ABSTRACTS An examination of the empirical evidence for the efficacy of speech and
language therapy treatment for adult aphasic patients is undertaken with the aid of meta …

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of aphasia therapy have not established that speech
therapy is effective with aphasic patients. The characteristics of RCTs, and the assumptions …

Five Veterans Administration Medical Centers participated in an investigation designed to
compare individual with group treatment for aphasic patients who had suffered a left …

The mandate for evidence-based practice has prompted careful consideration of the weight
of the scientific evidence regarding the therapeutic value of various clinical treatments. In the …

This chapter describes two approaches to aphasia treatment. The first, the “impairment-
based” method, has the longest history and is therefore often considered the more traditional …

Therapy efficacy in chronic aphasia Page 1 Behavioural Neurology 24 (2011) 317–325 317
DOI 10.3233/BEN-2011-0342 IOS Press Therapy efficacy in chronic aphasia Anna Bassoa,∗ …