Neuropsychological Processes in Adult Aphasia: Rationale for Treatment

Abstract

This paper discusses adult aphasia as a disorder resulting from separate or combined dysfunctions of several neuropsychological processes. It is argued that the characteristics of verbal expression generally indicate the manner in which these processes are dysfunctioning. Such a rationale indicates that diagnosis and treatment should be based on identifling these neuropsychological processes and designing clinicalactivities which facilitate more efficient functioning rather than attempting to "reteach '' specifi linguistic patterns.

Phonological and Syntactic Effects in Silent Reading in Aphasics with Apraxia of Speech

“…1981, is again supported. Fur ther, the findings of marked similarities in the performance of Broca's aphasics and a predominately anomic aphasic group on a task involving phonological and syntactic factors tend to support the contention of Farmer and O'Connell [1980] that aphasics differ in fluency of speech production and not in differential impairments of linguistic com ponents.…”