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<i>COMPENSATORY THERAPIES</i>
<br/>1. Equipment: communication board, picture book, talking photo albums, computer communication devices (iPad apps).
<br/>2. Augmentative communication therapy: writing.
<br/>3. Sign language (AmerInd).
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<br/><i>RESTORATIVE THERAPIES</i>
<br/>4. Intensive Language Action Therapy (ILAT) &amp; Promoting Aphasic Communication Effectiveness (PACE) therapies.
<br/>5. Constraint induced aphasia therapy (CIAT).
<br/>6. Task-specific semantic and phonological therapies.
<br/>7. Cognitive linguistic therapy.
<br/>8. Melodic intonation therapy: recruits the right hemisphere for communication (more for apraxia).
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<br/><i>ADJUNCTS</i>
<br/>9. Volunteers, partners, group-therapy, community-based language programs, seminars.
<br/>10. Computer-based language therapies.
<br/>11. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
<br/>12. Levodopa, Donepezil, Galantamine may improve aphasia recovery.
<br/>13. Education: of patient, family and caregivers.


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[[Category:Aphasia]]
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