Computer-based script training for aphasia: emerging themes from post-treatment interviews.

This study presents results of post-treatment interviews following computer-based script training for persons with chronic aphasia. Each of the 23 participants received 9 weeks of AphasiaScripts training. Post-treatment interviews were conducted with the person with aphasia and/or a significant other person.

Tell me your story: analysis of script topics selected by persons with aphasia.

Purpose: This study examined the content of 100 short scripts, co-constructed by persons with aphasia (PWA) and a clinician. The PWA subsequently learned the scripts by interacting with a computerized virtual therapist. The goal was to provide clinicians with ideas regarding content for treatment that is meaningful to PWAs.

Patient-reported changes in communication after computer-based script training for aphasia.

Objective: To evaluate changes in patient-reported communication difficulty after a home-based, computer-delivered intervention designed to improve conversational skills in adults with aphasia.

Design: Delayed treatment design with baseline, preintervention, postintervention, and follow-up observations.

Setting: Outpatient rehabilitation.

Novel technology for treating individuals with aphasia and concomitant cognitive deficits.

Purpose: This article describes three individuals with aphasia and concomitant cognitive deficits who used state-of-theart computer software for training conversational scripts.

Method: Participants were assessed before and after 9 weeks of a computer script training program. For each participant, three individualized scripts were developed, recorded on the software, and practiced sequentially at home.

Computerized script training for aphasia: preliminary results.

Purpose: This article describes computer software that was developed specifically for training conversational scripts and illustrates its use with 3 individuals with aphasia.

Method: Three participants with chronic aphasia (Broca's, Wernicke's, and anomic) were assessed before and after 9 weeks of a computer script training program. For each participant, 3 individualized scripts were developed, recorded on the software, and practiced sequentially at home.

Performance on the California Verbal Learning Test following right hemisphere stroke: a longitudinal study.

Purpose: This longitudinal study examines performance of individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) on the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT).

Method: 18 participants were administered the CVLT during the acute phase (<3 months post onset) and then at subsequent times up to 2 years post onset.

Results: Using List A, Trials 1-5, as a global measure of learning, participants at first testing demonstrated recall skills below the mean standard score of 50 (M = 32.

Right hemisphere stroke and the California Verbal Learning Test: a preliminary study.

Method: This study examines group and individual performance on word list recall and recognition in 52 patients with unilateral right hemisphere stroke.

Results: On the California Verbal Learning Test, List A, Trials 1-5, patients achieved a mean score of 30.31 (SD = 13.

Two approaches to treating unilateral neglect after right hemisphere stroke: a preliminary investigation.

Purpose: This preliminary study assessed the efficacy of two treatment methods for persistent unilateral or hemispatial neglect following right hemisphere stroke.

Method: Two patients received an intervention focusing on the underlying impairment of attention during visual scanning. Two other participants received an intervention that provided repetitive practice during a functional task of oral reading.

An assessment tool for evaluating cognitive-communicative problems in patients with right hemisphere damage: Preliminary findings.

This article briefly describes the primary characteristics ofthe communication problems associated with right hemisphere damage. It presents a test battery, the RIC Evaluation of Communication Problems in Right Hemisphere Dysfunction-2 (RICE-2; Halper, Burns, Cherney, & Mogil, 1991), that has been developed for this population. Preliminary results of a study to validate the RICE-2 indicate that the tool is sensitive to measuring the differences between nonneurologically impaired individuals and right hemisphere stroke patients.