About The Book
As a consequence of the disability movement, the thinking generated by the World Health Organization’s classification of disability and functioning, and an upturn in concern for the long-term consequences of aphasia, it has become apparent that two distinctive pathways for the treatment of aphasia have emerged over the past decade. The first (and most traditional) involves assessment and management directed toward lessening the effects of the impairment of aphasia, while the second pathway focuses less on specific language than on the psychosocial consequences of aphasia. This unique text specifically contrasts impairment- and consequences-focused treatment with the aim of providing clinicians with a level playing field that permits them to evaluate for themselves the relative contributions that each approach provides, to evaluate their relative strengths and weaknesses, and finally to seek common ground.
An opening chapter sets the scene, while the heart of the book, based on real cases, concerns five meticulously described, yet hypothetical individuals with aphasia. In each of the cases, detailed descriptions and assessment results are provided and clinical management plans, representing each approach, are presented by internationally recognized experts in aphasia rehabilitation.
About The Authors
Nadine Martin is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Temple University and is Director of the Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Her NIH supported research focuses on the relationship between word processing and short-memory abilities and the implications of this relationship for rehabilitation of language impairments associated with aphasia.
Dr. Thompson is a Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Neurology at Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois, with faculty appointments in the School of Communication, Feinberg School of Medicine, the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimers Disease Center, and the Neuroscience Institute. She holds academic degrees in Psychology and Speech and Language Pathology from the University of Oregon and the University of Kansas, respectively. A leading researcher in the field, she uses what is known about normal language processing and representation to guide studies of language breakdown and recovery in persons with stroke-induced aphasia. These patterns provide blueprints for clinical protocols and, in turn, address the utility of this translational approach for studying language disorders. She also studies the processing mechanisms that support recovery by tracking eye movements in sentence processing and production, and the neural correlates of recovery using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD) for over 15 years and has led to publication of over 70 articles in referred journals and 28 book chapters.
Dr. Thompson is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimers Disease Center (at Northwestern), and recipient of the Walder Award for Research Excellence at Northwestern (2007). She is a member of the Academy of Aphasia (Board of Governors of the Academy from 2003-2006), the Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), and the Society for Neuroscience (SFN).
Linda Worrall, PhD, B. Sp. Therapy, is a Professor Emerita of Speech Pathology at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and current Chairperson of the Australian Aphasia Association. She completed her undergraduate degree in speech pathology at The University of Queensland but then completed her PhD in the Stroke Research Unit in Nottingham, UK.
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