Grammatical Encoding in Aphasia: Evidence from a “Processing Prosthesis”

Aphasia rehabilitation and the role of computer technology: Can we keep up with modern times?

“…This restricts the functional role of all high tech devices, but especially those that allow production of novel utterances. An example of a computer program that supports the construction of novel utterances is Sentence Shaper, a powerful tool for speech production for people with moderate to mild aphasia (Linebarger, Schwartz, Romania, Kohn, & Stephens, 2000). This program can be used to process spoken production, like a word processing program is used to produce and revise written text.…”

Integrating technology and targeted treatment to improve narrative production in aphasia: A case study

“…The term ''aided effects'' refers to improvements in structure or content that are evident in a speaker's narratives produced with the use of SentenceShaper compared to the narratives produced without the program. After only 15 hours of home practice, the narratives that five of six aphasic speakers produced with the processing support of SentenceShaper contained longer and more grammatical sentences, despite the fact that the implementation of the program used in that study did not provide any lexical support (Linebarger, Schwartz, Romania, Kohn, & Stephens, 2000). Aided effects have also been observed for non-structural measures, specifically for unfamiliar listeners' judgements of the informativeness of aided and unaided productions (Bartlett, Fink, Schwartz, & Linebarger, 2007).…”

Interventions Using High-Technology Communication Devices: A State of the Art Review

“…Evaluations of the SentenceShaper™ program [15,16,17] describe gains in narrative production, however, with little carry-over to spontaneous use. Four further papers [18,19,20,21] found positive outcomes with people who have aphasia, including gains in formal language assessments and grammatical structures. A single paper [22] described less beneficial outcomes from software interventions, reporting varying success in use of the C-Speak™ Aphasia program.…”