New Approaches to Evaluation
Scientists are attempting to reveal the underlying problems that cause specific aphasia symptoms. The goal is to understand how injury to a particular brain structure impairs specific portions of a person's language process. The results could be useful in treating many types of aphasia, since the underlying cause can vary.
Other research is attempting to develop a model of sentence comprehension and production that can help provide a functional explanation for aphasia symptoms. These studies look at how difficulties in word representations and processes contribute to problems with sentence production and comprehension so that specific symptoms can be traced back to identifiable processing deficits. This would help focus treatment on the responsible word processes or representations.
- Who has aphasia?
- Types of Aphasia
- Aphasia Treatment
- New Approaches to Evaluation
- New Approaches to Characterization
- New Therapeutic Approaches
- A Closer Look at the Brain
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