APHASIA-EVIDENCE BASED MANAGEMENT

SUMMARY

COMPENSATORY THERAPIES
1. Equipment: communication board, picture book, talking photo albums, computer communication devices (iPad apps).
2. Augmentative communication therapy: writing.
3. Sign language (AmerInd).

RESTORATIVE THERAPIES
4. Intensive Language Action Therapy (ILAT) & Promoting Aphasic Communication Effectiveness (PACE) therapies.
5. Constraint induced aphasia therapy (CIAT).
6. Task-specific semantic and phonological therapies.
7. Cognitive linguistic therapy.
8. Melodic intonation therapy: recruits the right hemisphere for communication (more for apraxia).

ADJUNCTS
9. Volunteers, partners, group-therapy, community-based language programs, seminars.
10. Computer-based language therapies.
11. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
12. Levodopa, Donepezil, Galantamine may improve aphasia recovery.
13. Education: of patient, family and caregivers.

Reference(s)

Faltynek, P., Salter, K., Cotoi, A., Macaluso, S., Orange, J. and Teasell, R. (2018). Aphasia and Apraxia | EBRSR: Evidence-Based Review of Stroke Rehabilitation. [online] Ebrsr.com. Available at: http://www.ebrsr.com/evidence-review/14-aphasia-and-apraxia [Accessed 6 Dec. 2019]

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