TREATMENT OF SENTENCE PROCESSING DISORDERS IN APHASIA

一系列研究--PI和Co-PI一直是主要研究对象 贡献者--以句法到语义的映射缺失为核心 布洛卡失语症语法障碍的特点。 因此，我们的神经语言学家和言语语言病理学家团队 寻求开发针对测绘操作的治疗方案， 以及与映射直接相关的动词检索操作。我们的 初步的成功强化了这样一种信念，即治疗的动机是 神经语言学的发现和针对成分缺陷的研究 在失语症患者临床管理中的重要作用。 经过适当的设计和充分的测试，这种治疗方法可以包括 建筑群修复方案的模块构建块 语言技能，如口头表达。这就是“模块化治疗”的主题 在这份由三部分组成的建议书中，根据以下内容进行了详细阐述 具体目标： 第一部分：比较语法错误的两种治疗方法的疗效 刺激和标测疗法-针对不同的神经语言学 操作；并检查有序组合的有效性 两次治疗。 第二部分：继续开发动词处理程序，该程序 同时鼓励词汇语义、句法和语音 句子语境中动词的加工；操纵句子的深度 动词意义的加工作为处理的自变量； 第二部分：促进治疗效果的延续，因此更多 功能结果，通过循序渐进的泛化训练 旨在弥合受限和自然主义之间差距的模块 口语制作任务；

A body of research-to which the PI and Co-PI have been major contributors-implicates a syntax-to-semantics mapping deficit as a core feature in the grammatical disorder of nonfluent, Broca's aphasics. Consequently, our team of neurolinguists and speech-language pathologists has sought to develop treatment protocols that target mapping operations, along with verb retrieval operations that bear directly on mapping. Our preliminary successes reinforce the belief that treatments motivated by neurolinguistic findings and directed at components deficits have an important role to play in the clinical management of aphasic patients. Properly designed and adequately tested, such treatments may comprise the modular building blocks of programs for the rehabilitation of complex linguistic skills like oral production. This 'modular treatments' theme is elaborated in this 3-part proposal in accordance with the following specific aims: Part I: To compare the efficacy of two treatments for agrammatism-syntax stimulation and mapping therapy-which target different neurolinguistic operations; and to examine the efficacy of ordered combinations of the two treatments. Part II: To continue the development of a verb treatment program which simultaneously encourages lexico-semantic, syntactic, and phonological processing of verbs in sentence contexts; to manipulate 'depth of processing' of verb meaning as an independent variable in such treatment; Part IIl: To promote carry-over of treatment effects, and hence more functional outcomes, by means of a step-wise generalization training module aimed at bridging the gap between constrained and naturalistic oral production tasks;