Five chronically aphasic subjects were trained on a computerized iconographic
communication system (C-VIC). Their performance in producing single sentences, scripts …

Background: Recent reports from a variety of labs have demonstrated that some patients
with aphasia have concomitant non-linguistic cognitive compromises, especially in the area …

Background: Studies of aphasic sentence production have identified a number of promising
approaches to improving performance at the single sentence level, but these studies have …

Purpose: This article describes three individuals with aphasia and concomitant cognitive
deficits who used state-of-theart computer software for training conversational scripts …

The study aimed to determine the efficacy of a Conversational Therapy approach in the
treatment of chronic patients with moderately severe non-fluent aphasia. Eight patients …

Background: Automatic production of spoken language is compromised in many individuals
with aphasia whose speech is consistently effortful. Linguistic-based and functional …

Background: The application of word‐finding treatments for aphasia, as well as the study of
their effects, has typically centred on retrieval of single lexical items (Nickels,). Little is known …

In chronic aphasia, maximizing generalization of improved language abilities from clinical
tasks to everyday communication can require the same systematic planning process as the …

A computerized communication system (C-VIC) was employed as a diagnostic and
therapeutic tool to identify propositional language abilities in a chronic, globally aphasic …

Learning how to use a computer-based communication system can be challenging for
people with severe aphasia even if the system is not word-based. This study explored …