Beyond Aphasia
Beyond Aphasia

Author: Carole Pound

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1351687794

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This book focuses explicitly on therapeutic techniques developed from a social model approach to disability and learning to live with difference. It describes theories, activities and methods of implementation developed from the work of Connect with people with long term aphasia. "Theoretical discussion runs alongside practical ideas for therapy and evaluation, case studies and commentaries from the authors regarding the method and means of implementation." Synthesises theory and practice in this new area of service delivery. Its non-impairment led focus of the therapies means that it has wide appeal to therapists, health service professionals and volunteers who work with people with chronic disabilities affecting lifestyle and communication.

Assessment of Aphasia
Assessment of Aphasia

Author: Otfried Spreen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-11-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0198032250

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Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore test instruments and approaches that have been used traditionally for the diagnosis of aphasia, ranging from bedside screening and ratings, to tests of specific aspects of language, and to comprehensive and psychometrically standardized aphasia batteries. Coverage of other methods reflects newer trends, including the areas of functional communication, testing of bilingual patients, psycholinguistic approaches, and pragmatic and discourse-related aspects of language in everyday life. The authors also examine the expansion of language assessment to individuals with non-aphasic neurological disorders, such as patients with traumatic brain injury, lesions of the right hemisphere, the healthy elderly, and invidulas with dimentia. Taking a flexible and empirical approach to the assessment process in their own clinical practice, Spreen and Risser review numerous test instruments and their source for professionals and students-in-training to choose from in their own use. The introductory chapters cover the history of aphasia assessment, a basic outline of subtypes of aphasia- both neuro-anatomically and psycholinguistically-, and the basic psychometric requirements for assessment instruments. The final part discusses issues in general clinical practice, specifically questions of test selection and interpretation. The book is a thorough and practical resource for speech and language pathologists, neuropsychologists, and their students and trainees.

Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology
Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

Author: Jeffrey Kreutzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9783319571102

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This encyclopedia serves as a unified, comprehensive reference for professionals involved in the diagnosis, evaluation, and rehabilitation of persons with neuropsychological and cognitive disorders. Presented in a traditional A-Z format, the encyclopedia addresses assessment strategies, behavioral syndromes and disorders, care systems, dagnosis and diagnostic labels, educational and forensic issues, neuroimaging modalities and techniques, prominent scientists in the field, psychopharmacology, professional issues, rehabilitation interventions, neuropsychological test batteries, and much more. Includes illustrations, tables, and recommendations for further reading.

The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke
The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke

Author: Olivier Godefroy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-18

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 1139461893

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The care of stroke patients has changed dramatically. As well as improvements in the emergency care of the condition, there have been marked advances in our understanding, management and rehabilitation of residual deficits. This book is about the care of stroke patients, focusing on behavioural and cognitive problems. It provides a comprehensive review of the field covering the diagnostic value of these conditions, in the acute and later phases, their requirements in terms of treatment and management and the likelihood and significance of long-term disability. This book will appeal to all clinicians involved in the care of stroke patients, as well as to neuropsychologists, other rehabilitation therapists and research scientists investigating the underlying neuroscience.

Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology
Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

Author: Jeffrey Kreutzer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-09-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0387799478

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Clinical neuropsychology is a rapidly evolving specialty whose practitioners serve patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke and other vascular impairments, brain tumors, epilepsy and nonepileptic seizure disorders, developmental disabilities, progressive neurological disorders, HIV- and AIDS-related disorders, and dementia. . Services include evaluation, treatment, and case consultation in child, adult, and the expanding geriatric population in medical and community settings. The clinical goal always is to restore and maximize cognitive and psychological functioning in an injured or compromised brain. Most neuropsychology reference books focus primarily on assessment and diagnosis, and to date none has been encyclopedic in format. Clinicians, patients, and family members recognize that evaluation and diagnosis is only a starting point for the treatment and recovery process. During the past decade there has been a proliferation of programs, both hospital- and clinic-based, that provide rehabilitation, treatment, and treatment planning services. This encyclopedia will serve as a unified, comprehensive reference for professionals involved in the diagnosis, evaluation, and rehabilitation of adult patients and children with neuropsychological disorders.

Quality of Life in Aphasia
Quality of Life in Aphasia

Author: Linda Worrall

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781841699462

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This special issue of the journal Aphasiologyis dedicated to the topic of quality of life in aphasia.

An Object and Action Naming Battery
An Object and Action Naming Battery

Author: Judit Druks

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 9780863778889

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This test provides a resource for clinical practice, for aphasia research and for psycholinguistic research. It was developed in response to an acknowledgement of the need for the thorough assessment of verb knowledge in aphasic patients, and with an empasis on the design of therapies that specifically target verb deficits. The materials will also be useful for research into verb processing and representational differences between verbs and nouns, including brain imaging studies. The Battery consists of line drawings of 162 objects and 100 actions together with ratings for age-of-acquisition, familiarity and imageability of the verbal labels of the pictures. Visual complexity ratings for the pictures, printed word frequency values of the verbal labels, and information about the syntactic realisation of the action labels are also provided. At least 93% name agreement was achieved in collecting naming responses for each the pictures in the Battery from a group of respondents. The object and action pictures in the Battery are matched on printed word frequency, rated age-of-acquisition, and rated familiarity of the verbal labels. These psycholinguistic variables have been shown to be important predictors of naming performance. The pictures and printed verbal labels can be presented for picture naming, reading, writing to dictation, repetition, semantic classification and can easily be adapted for use in comprehension tests and word-picture verification tasks. The materials can also be used in lexical decision tasks and priming studies.