What is it about?
This paper describes a treatment program, phonomotor treatment, that resulted in improved reading and phonological processing abilities on untrained items in 8 individuals with aphasia and alexia.
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Why is it important?
This study suggests that training phonology in a multi-modal manner, beyond letter-sound correspondences, may be an effective approach to improve reading abilities in individuals with aphasia and alexia.
Perspectives
Since our first publication in 1998 in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society on the use of a multimodal approach to the neurorehabilitation of aphasia/alexia, there is a growing consensus that effective interventions can be based on neurodevelopmental models of language and literacy disorders that have been shown to be highly effective in both the early intervention and remedial treatment of developmental dyslexia. Brookshire et al., have provided a wonderful extension to this ongoing program of research on effective intervention of phonological alexia. More articles from earlier works with phonological alexia (including a consensus white paper on the future of empirical studies of aphasia and neuroscience by Raymer et al) and developmental dyslexia are available at the following link: https://florida.academia.edu/TimConway
Dr Tim Conway
University of Florida
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This page is a summary of: Effects of Intensive Phonomotor Treatment on Reading in Eight Individuals With Aphasia and Phonological Alexia, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2014_ajslp-13-0083.
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