Treating different language modalities

 Best Practice Statements

These statements have been updated by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation (Aphasia CRE) in 2024 in accordance with the most up to date research and expert opinion. (Statements originally developed by the NHMRC CCRE in Aphasia Rehabilitation in 2014)

Click on the statement for NHMRC level of evidence ratings, supporting rationales, resources and further information. 

5.9 Aphasia rehabilitation:

• should target spoken production at the word level
• can target spoken production at the sentence level (e.g., syntactic, thematic roles).
  
  

5.10 Aphasia rehabilitation can target auditory comprehension at the:

• word level (e.g., auditory discrimination, lexical access, semantic access)
• sentence level
• above-sentence level.
  
  

5.11 Aphasia rehabilitation can target writing at the:

• word level
• sentence level
• above-sentence level.
  
  

5.12 Aphasia rehabilitation can target reading at the:

• word level
• sentence level
• above-sentence level.
   

5.13 Aphasia rehabilitation can target discourse at the:

• monologue level
• interactional discourse (conversation) level.
   

5.14 Aphasia rehabilitation can target augmentative and alternative communication, including:

• No-technology/low-technology AAC
• High-technology AAC.