"Go aphasia!": Examining the efficacy of Constraint-Induced Language Therapy for individuals with agrammatic aphasia

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dc.contributor.advisorFaroqi-Shah, Yasmeenen_US
dc.contributor.authorVirion, Christineen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T05:52:40Z
dc.date.available2008-10-11T05:52:40Z
dc.date.issued2008-08-25en_US
dc.description.abstractRecently, high intensity short-term therapy with a heavy emphasis on verbal language (called constraint induced language therapy, CILT) has gained momentum in aphasiology. However, the entire extent of its applicability and limitations has not been fully studied, especially with regard to specific aphasic deficits. This thesis sought to: 1) determine the efficacy of the originally published CILT protocol (o-CILT) with a deficit specific population (four individuals with agrammatic aphasia) and 2) examine the potential effect of a modified CILT protocol, which additionally focused on grammatical accuracy (g-CILT). Results revealed differences between the performance of individuals with agrammatism in this study and previously published CILT data. Findings also demonstrated that participants receiving g-CILT produced more significant gains on tests of aphasia severity and grammaticality, while individuals receiving o-CILT showed more highly significant changes on discourse measures of grammaticality. This paper suggests that, for individuals with agrammatism, CILT in its original form may not evince significant changes on tests of aphasia severity and grammatical production and a grammatical modification appears to increase the efficacy of CILT.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8611
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Speech Pathologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Rehabilitation and Therapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledaphasiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledconstraint induceden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledconstraint-induced language therapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledagrammatismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledconstraint-induced aphasia therapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCILTen_US
dc.title"Go aphasia!": Examining the efficacy of Constraint-Induced Language Therapy for individuals with agrammatic aphasiaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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