What is it about?
Despite advances in science, old theories and practices about damage to language areas of the brain are abundant. A case study is presented involving a person who had a stroke in the language areas. Updated scientific theories were used to understand the injury and decide best rehabilitation strategies. Modern theories and practices can help treatments be much more specific to a person's unique injury and help them more effectively.
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Why is it important?
Aphasia clinicians have a lot of science to keep up with and are busy practicing. Newer theories and practices, when not taught explicitly in graduate school or substantial continuing education, can seem too removed from real world practice to realistically incorporate. This case study explicitly demonstrates how modern models of aphasia were used in a typical busy medical practice setting, and how it ultimately was more targeted from the outset.
Perspectives
Most of us SLPs were trained in graduate school to think about aphasia according to historical models. Much better models consistent with advances in mainstream neuroscience have existed for over 40 years but still haven't broken through typical clinical practices, despite the superiority of new models in actually informing individual treatment needs very specifically. This case study shows how newer theories were incorporated in a typical outpatient hospital medical setting successfully. Newer theories take out a lot of guesswork and trial & error from aphasia rehabilitation.
Audra Yetter
Neuro Speech MT
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This page is a summary of: A Psycholinguistic Approach to the Management of Aphasia in a Case of Left Parietal Stroke, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, August 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2024_persp-24-00007.
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