Executive functions and aphasia treatment outcomes: data from an ortho-phonological cueing therapy for anomia in Chinese.

This study examined the existence of a possible relationship between anomic treatment outcomes and executive functions. An ortho-phonological cueing method was used to facilitate object naming in 12 Cantonese-speaking anomic individuals. Treatment effectiveness for each participant was quantified and correlated with the performance of executive functions and language tasks.

Treatment generalization and executive control processes: preliminary data from Chinese anomic individuals.

Background: While various treatment approaches have been shown to be effective in remediating word-finding difficulties in aphasic individuals, interest has recently been directed at the role of executive functions in affecting treatment outcomes.

Aims: To examine the existence of a possible relationship between treatment generalization and executive control abilities.

Methods & Procedures: An identical treatment protocol using the English alphabet as letter cues to facilitate name retrieval was applied to five Cantonese-speaking anomic individuals.

A case study of the effect of age-of-acquisition on reading aloud in Chinese dyslexia.

This paper reports the influence of age-of-acquisition (AoA) effects on the oral reading accuracy of a Chinese brain-injured individual, FWL, who has anomia and dyslexia resulting from moderate-to-severe semantic deficits. We found an effect of the phonological consistency of a character and tentative evidence for an interaction between AoA and consistency. These observations converge on previous reports of an effect of AoA on reading and spelling of alphabetic scripts and in the reading of Japanese Kanji, a non-alphabetic script.

Exercise-induced desaturation and electrocardiogram changes in people with severe lung disease: an exploratory investigation of 25 serial cases.

Background: Arterial desaturation is a commonly accepted clinical basis for discontinuing physical activity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Objective: The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the electrocardiograms of people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease recovering from exercise-induced arterial desaturation.

Subjects: Subjects (n = 25) walked for 6 minutes while oxygen saturation was monitored.

Processing of semantic radicals in writing Chinese characters: Data from a Chinese dysgraphic patient.

This paper describes a case study of a Chinese brain-injured patient with mild dyslexia and more severe dysgraphia. The distributions of his reading and writing errors across tasks are consistent with previous reports. Semantic errors predominated in naming tasks in both modalities, while the preponderance of LARC or phonologically similar errors in reading and phonologically plausible errors in writing-to-dictation was found.