Aphasia and its therapy /

Basso, Anna.

Aphasia and its therapy / Anna Basso. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003. - 1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index.

A historical overview -- Classification of the aphasias -- Aphasia therapy from WWI to the 1970's -- The efficacy of aphasia therapy -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- The lexicon -- Cognitive rehabilitation -- In search of a theory of aphasia therapy -- Rehabilitation of lexical and sentence disorders -- Severe aphasia and pragmatics -- Final remarks.

This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder. Studies of the deficits underlying aphasia and the practice of aphasia rehabilitation have often diverged, and the relationship between theory and practice in aphasiology is loose. The goal of this book is to help close this gap by making explicit the relationship between what is to be rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it. Early chapters cover the history of aphasia and its therapy from Broca's discoveries to the 1970's, and provide a.


English.

9780198031055 (electronic bk.) 019803105X (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) 1280834382 9781280834387 9786610834389 6610834385 1429420553 9781429420556

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Aphasia.
Aphasic persons--Rehabilitation.
Speech therapy.
Aphasia--therapy
Speech Therapy
Aphasia
Aphasie.
Aphasiques--Réadaptation.
Orthophonie.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Hearing & Speech.
MEDICAL--Audiology & Speech Pathology.
Aphasia.
Aphasic persons--Rehabilitation.
Speech therapy.
Afasie.
Therapieën.


Electronic books.
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RC425 / .B378 2003eb

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2003 D-736 WL 340.5 / B322a 2003

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