Gesture and Naming Therapy for People with Severe Aphasia: A Group Study

Autor/inn/en	Marshall, Jane; Best, Wendy; Cocks, Naomi; Cruice, Madeline; Pring, Tim; Bulcock, Gemma; Creek, Gemma; Eales, Nancy; Mummery, Alice Lockhart; Matthews, Niina; Caute, Anna
Titel	Gesture and Naming Therapy for People with Severe Aphasia: A Group Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55 (2012) 3, S.726-738 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2011/11-0219)
Schlagwörter	Therapy; Aphasia; Naming; Vocabulary; Cues; Nonverbal Communication; Pantomime; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Therapie; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Wortschatz; Stichwort; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation
Abstract	Purpose: In this study, the authors (a) investigated whether a group of people with severe aphasia could learn a vocabulary of pantomime gestures through therapy and (b) compared their learning of gestures with their learning of words. The authors also examined whether gesture therapy cued word production and whether naming therapy cued gestures. Method: Fourteen people with severe aphasia received 15 hr of gesture and naming treatments. Evaluations comprised repeated measures of gesture and word production, comparing treated and untreated items. Results: Baseline measures were stable but improved significantly following therapy. Across the group, improvements in naming were greater than improvements in gesture. This trend was evident in most individuals' results, although 3 participants made better progress in gesture. Gains were item specific, and there was no evidence of cross-modality cueing. Items that received gesture therapy did not improve in naming, and items that received naming therapy did not improve in gesture. Conclusions: Results show that people with severe aphasia can respond to gesture and naming therapies. Given the unequal gains, naming may be a more productive therapy target than gesture for many (although not all) individuals with severe aphasia. The communicative benefits of therapy were not examined but are addressed in a follow-up article. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10