Purpose Aphasia is a debilitating chronic acquired language disorder that impacts heavily
on a person's life. Behavioural treatments aim to remediate language processing skills or to …

Little is known about how the amount of treatment a person with aphasia receives impacts
aphasia recovery following stroke, yet this information is vital to ensure effective treatments …

Background—It has been speculated that the conflicting results demonstrated across
poststroke aphasia therapy studies might be related to differences in intensity of therapy …

Optimizing intensity for aphasia treatment is a high priority research issue for people with
aphasia, their families and clinicians, and could result in healthcare cost savings. An …

Abstract Purpose of Review We now know that speech and language therapy (SALT) is
effective in the rehabilitation of aphasia; however, there remains much individual variability …

Aphasia, impairment of language after stroke or other neurological insult, is a common and
often devastating condition that affects nearly every social activity and interaction …

Abstract Treatment intensity is a critical component to the delivery of speech-language
pathology and rehabilitation services. Within aphasia rehabilitation, however, insufficient …

Aphasia research uses the length of time within rehabilitation sessions as the main measure
of dosage. Few papers detail therapeutic ingredients or outline the number of times these …

Objective To establish benchmarks of significant change for aphasia rehabilitation outcome
measures (ie, Western Aphasia Battery-Aphasia Quotient [WAB-AQ], Communicative …

Determining the optimal amount and intensity of treatment is essential to the design and
implementation of any treatment program for aphasia. A growing body of evidence, both …