Aphasia and Its Therapy

This title attempts to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder, making explicit the relationship between what is being rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it.

Sommario

• 1: A historical overview


• 2: Classification of the aphasias


• 3: Aphasia therapy from World War I to the 1970's


• 4: Efficacy of aphasia therapy


• 5: Cognitive neuropsychology


• 6: The lexicon


• 7: Cognitive rehabilitation


• 8: In search of a theory of aphasia therapy


• 9: Rehabilitation of lexical and sentence disorders


• 10: Severe aphasia and pragmatics


• 11: Final remarks


• Appendix 1


• Appendix 2

Riassunto

This title attempts to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder, making explicit the relationship between what is being rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna Basso, Anna (Associate Professor of Clinical Neuro Basso, Anna (Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology Basso, Basso Anna
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780195135879
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513587-9
• Pagine: 336
• Serie: Medicine; Medicine
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina; Audiologie, Otologie, Biopsychologie, Physiologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie, MEDICAL / Mental Health, MEDICAL / Neurology, Medical / Nursing, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, MEDICAL / Audiology & Speech Pathology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Speech & language disorders & therapy, Audiology & otology, Audiology and otology