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Treatment*A*Word*Retrieval*Errors:* Phonological*And*Semantic*Cues* Running head: EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF TREATMENTS FOR ANOMIA 1! ! Exploring*the*Efficacy*of*Treatments*for*Anomia*in*Discourse* Vyvyan T. Bui California State University, San Marcos Author Note Vyvyan T. Bui, Department of Speech-Language-Pathology, Communicative Sciences & Disorders, California State University, San Marcos. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Vyvyan Bui, Department of Speech-Language-Pathology, Communicative Sciences & Disorders, California State University San Marcos 333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Rd. San Marcos, CA 92096-4000. Running head: EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF TREATMENTS FOR ANOMIA 2! ! ! ! Abstract* ! This thesis explores the efficacy of two treatments for anomia in discourse for a participant with mild expressive aphasia. The first treatment utilizes a phonological and semantic cueing hierarchy, while the second is a discourse approach to semantic feature analysis, was chosen for implementation. The treatments are outlined in the paper and the results are presented and analyzed in order to demonstrate the efficacy of both treatment methods for treating anomia at the discourse level. Running head: EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF TREATMENTS FOR ANOMIA 3! ! Table*of*Contents* EXPLORING*THE*EFFICACY*OF*TREATMENTS*FOR*ANOMIA*IN*DISCOURSE*......................*1! ABSTRACT!...................................................................................................................................................................!2! TABLE!OF!CONTENTS!................................................................................!ERROR!*BOOKMARK*NOT*DEFINED.! CHAPTER!ONE:!INTRODUCTION!..............................................................................................................................!4! Background:,............................................................................................................................................................,4! Aphasia,......................................................................................................................................................................,4! Aphasia,and,Age,....................................................................................................................................................,5! Anomia,......................................................................................................................................................................,7! Lexical,Retrieval,....................................................................................................................................................,8! Lexical,Retrieval,at,the,Semantic,and,Phonological,Level,in,Anomia,.......................................,11! Lexical,Retrieval,Debate,.................................................................................................................................,12! Treatments,oF,Anomia,.....................................................................................................................................,14! Statement,of,the,Problem/SigniFicance,of,the,Study:,........................................................................,17! Summary,of,Selection:,.....................................................................................................................................,19! Purpose,oF,the,Study,.........................................................................................................................................,20! CHAPTER!TWO:!METHODOLOGY!.........................................................................................................................!21! Introduction,.........................................................................................................................................................,21! Methods:,.................................................................................................................................................................,21! Stimulus/materials,used,For,treatment,A,and,B:,.................................................................................,21! Pre,and,PostMTest,...............................................................................................................................................,22! Procedure:,.............................................................................................................................................................,24! Cueing/prompting/Feedback/reinForcement,schedule,and,type:,................................................,25! Methods,Treatment,B:,.....................................................................................................................................,25! Procedure:,.............................................................................................................................................................,26! Cueing/prompting/Feedback/reinForcement,schedule,and,type:,................................................,27! Scoring,rubric/procedure,and,determination,of,when,to,advance,or,change:,.....................,27! CHAPTER!THREE:!RESULTS!..................................................................................................................................!27! Treatment,A:,........................................................................................................................................................,27! Treatment,B:,........................................................................................................................................................,30! Maintenance:,.......................................................................................................................................................,31! CHAPTER!FOUR:!DISCUSSION!AND!CONCLUSION!.............................................................................................!38! Treatment,A,.........................................................................................................................................................,40! Treatment,B,.........................................................................................................................................................,41! Generalization,.....................................................................................................................................................,42! Maintenance,........................................................................................................................................................,42! Comparison,of,Treatment,A,and,B,.............................................................................................................,43! Limitations:,..........................................................................................................................................................,45! Conclusions:,..........................................................................................................................................................,46! REFERENCES!............................................................................................................................................................!48! Appendix,A,............................................................................................................................................................,53! Appendix,B,............................................................................................................................................................,54! ! Running head: EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF TREATMENTS FOR ANOMIA 4! ! ! ! * Chapter*One:*Introduction* Background:*Aphasia* ! Aphasia is a language disturbance caused by damage to the language centers of the brain or neural pathways in which all four modalities of language are affected: auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, written expression, and verbal expression (Kendall et al., 2008). This means that aphasia is a deficit in both the decoding and encoding of language (Darley, 1982). Aphasia most often occurs due to stroke (CVA), brain injury, brain tumors, or other neurological damage, but is most commonly associated with strokes (LaPointe, 2005). However, it is important to note that aphasia is not attributable to sensory or motor loss or dementia (Darley, 1982). Despite the fact that aphasia affects all modalities of language, often times, individuals with aphasia are often classified into two categories based upon which characteristics are more affected: fluent and nonfluent aphasia (DeLeon, et al., 2007). These are then narrowed into eight different types of aphasia. Two types of commonly occurring aphasia, Broca’s aphasia and Wernicke’s aphasia are often categorized as expressive and receptive aphasia respectively. Broca’s*Aphasia* ! For the purposes of this thesis, only Broca’s aphasia, a form of non-fluent aphasia will be discussed. Individuals diagnosed with Broca’s aphasia often suffer damage to the inferior frontal gyrus, or Broca’s area (Ward, 2010). This area of the brain is important for language production. These individuals can be characterized with expression skills that are more compromised than comprehension abilities. This often results in apparent Running head: EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF TREATMENTS FOR ANOMIA 5! ! word retrieval problems as well as speech that often contain extended pauses, awkward articulation, omission of functor words and grammatical morphemes, speech circumlocutions, and substitutions
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