A historical overview -- Classification of the aphasias -- Aphasia therapy from WWI to the 1970's -- The efficacy of aphasia therapy -- Cognitive neuropsychology -- The lexicon -- Cognitive rehabilitation -- In search of a theory of aphasia therapy -- Rehabilitation of lexical and sentence disorders -- Severe aphasia and pragmatics -- Final remarks
Summary
This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder. Studies of the deficits underlying aphasia and the practice of aphasia rehabilitation have often diverged, and the relationship between theory and practice in aphasiology is loose. The goal of this book is to help close this gap by making explicit the relationship between what is to be rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it. Early chapters cover the history of aphasia and its therapy from Broca's discoveries to the 1970's, and provide a
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index
