Training Agrammatic Subjects on Passive Sentences: Implications for Syntactic Deficit Theories

Weinrich, Michael; Boser, Katharina; McCall, Denise; Bishop, Valerie

doi:10.1006/brln.2000.2421

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“…In addition, we included constrained sentence production tasks (i.e., the PDSM and the Caplan and Hanna Test) to measure stimulus generalisation. Our findings substantiate earlier studies (Mitchum & Berndt, 1994;Mitchum et al, 1993Mitchum et al, , 1997Rochon & Reichman, 2003;Weinrich et al, 2001) in which cognitively-based treatments have been shown to be successful in training sentence production of even complex sentence structures. They extend earlier findings by demonstrating the feasibility of applying the mapping therapy approach to sentence production, and by showing that treatment gains generalise to trained and some untrained sentence structures on novel tasks.…”

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“…As in the comprehension-based mapping therapy studies, there is evidence for structure-specific improvement in treatment studies that have targeted sentence production, but the question of reciprocal gains in sentence comprehension remains unclear (Weinrich et al, 2001). For instance, we found no improvement in comprehension abilities in our patient whose production abilities successfully improved (Rochon & Reichman, 2003), and Jacobs and Thompson (2000) have found cross-modal generalisation for comprehension training, but not for production training.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Of the few studies that have had a similar theoretical underpinning to mapping (i.e., the link between the Functional and the Positional level), results with a small number of patients have provided evidence of structure-specific improvement with training on active sentences (Mitchum & Berndt, 1994;Mitchum, Haendiges, & Berndt, 1993) and passive sentences (Mitchum, Greenwald, & Berndt, 1997) using an approach called grammatical frames therapy. Weinrich, Boser, McCall, and Bishop (2001) have also successfully trained one patient (but not another) to produce passive sentences on an iconic computer-based communication system (C-VIC). We have found improved active and passive sentence production in one patient, but only after training on each sentence type separately and with no generalisation from one sentence type to the other (Rochon & Reichman, 2003).…”

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“…Furthermore, despite the expectation of improvement in sentence production with a mapping approach, there has been no explicit mapping therapy study that has focused on training sentence production. Of the few studies that have had a similar theoretical underpinning to mapping, results with a small number of patients have also provided evidence of structure specific improvement with sentence production training (Mitchum & Berndt, 1994;Mitchum et al, 1993;Rochon & Reichman, 2003;Weinrich et al, 2001). However, stimulus generalisation (i.e., to untrained tasks) has rarely been examined and generalisation to comprehension has been found to be variable (Weinrich et al, 2001;Rochon & Reichman, 2003).…”

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Mapping therapy for sentence production impairments in nonfluent aphasia

Rochon

Laird

Bose

et al. 2005

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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This study investigated a new treatment in which sentence production abilities were trained in a small group of individuals and nonfluent aphasia. It was based upon a mapping therapy approach which holds that sentence production and comprehension impairments are due to difficulties in mapping between the meaning form (thematic roles) and the syntactic form of sentences. We trained production of both canonical and noncanonical reversible sentences. Three patients received treatment and two served as control participants. Patients who received treatment demonstrated acquisition of all trained sentence structures. They also demonstrated across-task generalisation of treated and some untreated sentence structures on two tasks of constrained sentence production, and showed some improvements on a narrative task. One control participant improved on some of these measures and the other did not. There was no noted improvement in sentence comprehension abilities following treatment. Results are discussed with reference to the heterogeneity of underlying impairments in sentence production impairments in nonfluent patients, and the possible mechanisms by which improvement in sentence production might have been achieved in treatment.

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Section: The Mapping Deficit Hypothesis and Mapping Therapiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Mapping Deficit Hypothesis and Mapping Therapiesmentioning

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Mapping therapy for sentence production impairments in nonfluent aphasia

Rochon

Laird

Bose

et al. 2005

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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“…Treatment of sentence comprehension using a mapping therapy approach has revealed significant cross-modal generalization effects with improvements in untrained sentence production, supporting the view of shared processing for sentence production and sentence comprehension at the functional level (Byng, 1988;Byng, Nickels, & Black, 1994;Jones, 1986;Nickels, Byng, & Black, 1991;Schwartz et al, 1994, Figure 1c). The reverse effect with improvements in sentence comprehension after mapping treatment in sentence production has also been described (Harris, Olson, & Humphreys, 2012;Weinrich, Boser, Mccall, & Bishop, 2001). However, contradictory results have also been observed-namely, patients lacking cross-modal generalization, after treatment of mapping deficits both in comprehension (e.g., Berndt & Mitchum, 1997;Mitchum et al, 1995;Nickels et al, 1991) and in production (Rochon, Laird, Bose, & Scofield, 2005;Rochon & Reichmann, 2003).…”

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Training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production does not generalize to comprehension: evidence for modality-specific processes

Schröder

Burchert

Stadie

2014

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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The presence or absence of generalization after treatment can provide important insights into the functional relationship between cognitive processes. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the cognitive processes that underlie sentence comprehension and production in aphasia. Using data from seven participants who took part in a case-series intervention study that focused on noncanonical sentence production [Stadie et al. (2008). Unambiguous generalization effects after treatment of noncanonical sentence production in German agrammatism. Brain and Language, 104, 211-229], we identified patterns of impairments and generalization effects for the two modalities. Results showed (a) dissociations between sentence structures and modalities before treatment, (b) an absence of cross-modal generalization from production to comprehension after treatment, and (c), a co-occurrence of spared comprehension before treatment and generalization across sentence structures within production after treatment. These findings are in line with the assumption of modality-specific, but interacting, cognitive processes in sentence comprehension and production. More specifically, this interaction is assumed to be unidirectional, allowing treatment-induced improvements in production to be supported by preserved comprehension.

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What is Functional Communication? A Theoretical Framework for Real-World Communication Applied to Aphasia Rehabilitation

Doedens

Meteyard

2022

Neuropsychol Rev

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Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or traumatic brain injury, that affects a person’s ability to communicate effectively. The aim of rehabilitation in aphasia is to improve everyday communication, improving an individual’s ability to function in their day-to-day life. For that reason, a thorough understanding of naturalistic communication and its underlying mechanisms is imperative. The field of aphasiology currently lacks an agreed, comprehensive, theoretically founded definition of communication. Instead, multiple disparate interpretations of functional communication are used. We argue that this makes it nearly impossible to validly and reliably assess a person’s communicative performance, to target this behaviour through therapy, and to measure improvements post-therapy. In this article we propose a structured, theoretical approach to defining the concept of functional communication. We argue for a view of communication as “situated language use”, borrowed from empirical psycholinguistic studies with non-brain damaged adults. This framework defines language use as: (1) interactive, (2) multimodal, and (3) contextual. Existing research on each component of the framework from non-brain damaged adults and people with aphasia is reviewed. The consequences of adopting this approach to assessment and therapy for aphasia rehabilitation are discussed. The aim of this article is to encourage a more systematic, comprehensive approach to the study and treatment of situated language use in aphasia.

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Training Agrammatic Subjects on Passive Sentences: Implications for Syntactic Deficit Theories

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Mapping therapy for sentence production impairments in nonfluent aphasia

Mapping therapy for sentence production impairments in nonfluent aphasia

Training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production does not generalize to comprehension: evidence for modality-specific processes

What is Functional Communication? A Theoretical Framework for Real-World Communication Applied to Aphasia Rehabilitation

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