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Aphasia Therapy Workshop: Current Approaches to Aphasia Therapy - Principles and Applications: A special issue of the journal Aphasiology

cover of Aphasia Therapy Workshop: Current Approaches to Aphasia Therapy - Principles and Applications

Edited by Jacqueline Ann Stark, Ruth Fink, Nadine Martin

Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology
 

  • List Price: $53.95
  • Web Price: $48.56 (You save $5.39)
  • ISBN: 978-1-84169-800-7
  • Published by: Psychology Press
  • Publication Date: 12/22/2005
  • Pages: 196
  • Binding(s): Hardback

About the Book

The Aphasia Therapy Workshop brings together leading experts in the field of aphasia to address current approaches to aphasia rehabilitation. The topics in this special issue include:

1) Functional communication: Social models and psychosocial approaches

2) Technological advances : Computer - based approaches

3) Aphasia therapy duration: best when intensive and prolonged?

4) Cognitive neuropsychological approaches

5) (Psycho-) Linguistic approaches

6) Beyond language – cognitive aspects of language therapy

The papers reflect the variety of approaches to treatment of aphasia and provide the reader with an update on the most current advances in our theories and practice of aphasia rehabilitation.

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