Developing auditory comprehension subtests of the Russian Aphasia Test

Treatment of Auditory Comprehension on Aphasia

Aphasia is a systemic disturbance of speech, revealing in the complete loss or partial loss of speech and local lesion caused by one or more of the speech areas in the brain. In most cases, aphasia occurs in adults, however, it is also possible in children, if the brain injury occurred after it had been formed, at least partially. The term ‘aphasia’ is derived from the Greek ‘fasio’ (say) and t...

A MEG investigation of single-word auditory comprehension in aphasia.

PURPOSE To explore whether individuals with aphasia exhibit differences in the M350, an electrophysiological marker of lexical activation, compared with healthy controls. METHOD Seven people with aphasia, 9 age-matched controls, and 10 younger controls completed an auditory lexical decision task while cortical activity was recorded with magnetoencephalography. There were 2 stimulus conditions...

Speech Modifications for Supporting Auditory Comprehension in Aphasia

Treating Attention to Improve Auditory Comprehension in Aphasia

most effective interaction with partner T and her least effective interaction with partner L appears to be differences in the nonaphasic partners’ interaction style. L tended to produce contentless back-channel ‘‘mhm’s’’ instead of utilizing her turns to produce understanding checks; then, when she did produce a check it contained a large number of content units. T, on the other hand, produced ...

Developing a clinician-friendly aphasia test.

PURPOSE The Kentucky Aphasia Test (KAT) is an objective measure of language functioning for persons with aphasia. This article describes materials, administration, and scoring of the KAT; presents the rationale for development of test items; reports information from a pilot study; and discusses the role of the KAT in aphasia assessment. METHOD The KAT has 3 parallel test batteries, KAT-1, KAT...