Types of aphasia therapy

Best Practice Statements

These statement have been developed by the NHMRC CCRE in Aphasia Rehabilitation in accordance with the most up to date research.

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1. Aphasia rehabilitation can include:

• treatment of aspects of language following models derived from cognitive neuropsychology - word retrieval deficits, reading deficits, writing deficits
• treatment of sentence comprehension and production impairments
• discourse treatment
• augmentative and alternate communication
• constraint-induced language therapy
• gesture based therapy

2. Aphasia rehabilitation should:

• be tailored to the needs of the person with aphasia and the nature of their communication difficulty
• address the impact of aphasia on functional everyday activities, participation and quality of life including the impact upon relationships, vocation and leisure as appropriate from post-onset and over time for those chronically affected
• address the needs of family/carers
• include information tailored to meet the needs of people with aphasia and their family/carers
• include communication partner training