Purpose Multimodal therapy is a frequent term in aphasia literature, but it has no agreed
upon definition. Phrases such as “multimodal therapy” and “multimodal treatment” are …

Background: Clinicians often teach persons with aphasia (PWA) non-verbal strategies to
compensate for reduced verbal communication. The manner in which they teach the …

Management of patients with aph asia often focuses on training nonverbal augmentative
communication strategies; however, these strategies frequently do not generalize to natural …

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 …

Background: The ultimate goal in any programme of aphasia rehabilitation is that
behaviours targeted in therapy will generalise to everyday use for people with aphasia …

Background: Word retrieval impairments are a hallmark characteristic of aphasia.
Intervention can focus on the restoration of language skills and instruction in alternative …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to revisit the role of augmentative and alternative
communication (AAC) in poststroke aphasia rehabilitation. The authors' intent is to provide a …

Aphasia is a significant cause of disability and reduced quality of life. Two speech pathology
treatment approaches appear efficacious: multimodal and constraint-induced aphasia …

This is the case study of a 58-year-old man, TS, who, functionally, had no understanding of
the spoken word and whose sole verbal utterance was an expletive. He had a few poorly …

Background Speech and language therapy is effective in improving language outcomes in
acquired aphasia. However, it remains unclear which therapy parameters are most …