Aphasia

Treat a wide range of clients with aphasia and adjust the tasks quickly within the therapy session with this book.

Clients respond to your prompts while looking at items pictured individually and in scenes. The picture stimuli and verbal prompts are adaptable to a variety of treatment approaches, including linguistic stimulation, semantic features, and phonological treatment.

The book is divided into two difficulty levels, and each level includes pictures and prompts for auditory comprehension and verbal expression tasks.

Level 1 presents six items pictured individually on a page.
• The auditory comprehension tasks include:
- picture identification
- two and three item series
- one-item descriptions
- two-item descriptions
- yes/no questions
• The verbal expression tasks include:
- word imitation
- automatic completion
- sentence completion
- sentence imitation
- sentence stimulation
- naming by semantic association
- confrontational naming

Level 2 uses simple, everyday scenes.
• The auditory comprehension tasks include:
- yes/no questions
- sentence comprehension
- listening for words in sentences
- following directions
• The verbal expression tasks include:
- open sentence completion with a noun
- open sentence completion with a phrase
- sentence formulation with verb/noun cues
- sentence formulation with noun cues
- expanding expression
- verbal reasoning/problem solving