Approaches to the treatment of alexia in chronic aphasia

Mayer, Jamie F.; Murray, Laura L.

doi:10.1080/02687030143000870

Cited by 49 publications

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“…It appears that presenting narrative passages with some level of visuographic context may have provided increased access to the participants' world knowledge and facilitated engagement of deeper-level information processing, thus resulting in longer response times. This supports the resource allocation theory, which advocates that people with aphasia have a reduced central pool of cognitive resources available or have difficulty allocating attention for language purposes, including reading tasks (McNeil, 1983;McNeil et al, 1991;Mayer & Murray, 2002;Murray, 1999).…”

Section: Response Timementioning

confidence: 58%

Reading comprehension by people with chronic aphasia: A comparison of three levels of visuographic contextual support

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Section: Response Timementioning

confidence: 58%

Reading comprehension by people with chronic aphasia: A comparison of three levels of visuographic contextual support

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“…Positive changes to outcome measures were reported following a combined oral reading / cognitive treatment (involving Modified Multiple Oral Re-reading and sequenced exercises for working memory) however the participant did not report functional changes to reading 40 . The final study involved cognitive rehabilitation via a hierarchical component approach, with functional reading and reading strategies part of the intervention 22 .…”

Section: Sub-acute Rehabilitation and Readingmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…These three papers involved the treatments of oral reading and cognitive treatments with a reading focus (including reading strategies) 22,39,40 . Statistically significant improvements in reading comprehension and generalisation to other language skills were found following the Oral…”

Section: Sub-acute Rehabilitation and Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The group findings included improvements in functional participation with 81% of participants returning to work or study; a subgroup from the study underwent additional assessments and demonstrated significant gains in reading comprehension assessment measures. While treatment dosage was not fully specified across the three studies 22,39,40 , mean treatment time ranged from 18.3 hours to 32.8 hours, with intervention sessions lasting between 30 and 120 minutes.…”

Section: Sub-acute Rehabilitation and Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Treating reading comprehension deficits in sub-acute brain injury rehabilitation: Identifying clinical practice and management

Watter

Copley

Finch

2016

Journal of Communication Disorders

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“…The first study using this type of approach was a study by Mayer and Murray (2002). The main focus of this study was to treat an acquired reading disorder in a patient with fluent aphasia.…”

Section: Treatment Of Attentional/executive Aspects In Storage and Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working memory treatment in aphasia: A theoretical and quantitative review

Majerus

2018

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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A B S T R A C TWorking memory (WM) is a frequent and long-lasting deficit in patients with aphasia. Progress has been made in our understanding of the nature of WM impairment, by considering deficits at the level of maintenance of item and serial order information (short-term memory), deficits at the level of attentional control, and their complex interactions with language impairment. However, WM treatment studies in aphasic patients remain scarce. This theoretical and quantitative review of 15 single-case treatment studies (24 patients) reveals that WM treatment in aphasic patients is associated with robust near transfer effects and smaller far transfer effects. WM treatment can also raise verbal WM capacity to normal range performance levels. The specificity of WM treatment is more difficult to establish as control tasks/treatments are associated with treatment effects of comparable size as far transfer effects. Existing treatments cover phonological maintenance and control of attention components of WM but do not target difficulties at the level of item interference or serial order processing. In order to improve the specificity of WM treatments, future studies should define WM impairment and treatment targets in a more precise and theoretically informed manner. Also, although the vast majority of reviewed studies meet minimal methodological requirements for single case experimental designs, the use of a larger number of baseline, treatment and control measures is recommended. Finally, publication of treatment studies with negative outcomes should be encouraged as it is currently difficult to estimate the impact of publication bias on observed treatment effects.

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Approaches to the treatment of alexia in chronic aphasia

Cited by 49 publications

References 24 publications

Reading comprehension by people with chronic aphasia: A comparison of three levels of visuographic contextual support

Reading comprehension by people with chronic aphasia: A comparison of three levels of visuographic contextual support

Treating reading comprehension deficits in sub-acute brain injury rehabilitation: Identifying clinical practice and management

Working memory treatment in aphasia: A theoretical and quantitative review

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