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APHASIA
Pre-Word Level
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Word Level
Photos, text with
pictures, boardmaker
app, ask patient to copy
text, reliable gestures,
yes/no/wrong direction
point cards
Sound imitation
Phonemes (lingraphica?)
Singing
First sound accuracy with
highly predicted sentence
completion
Imitating inflection
FOR EXAMPLE: Picture-Word
matching from the WALC 1
(Matching & Identification)
 tactus
DYSARTHRIA
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Lingraphia
Oral motor activities
Imitating inflection
Respiration
Adding voice to
respiration
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Feedback online re:
volume, and sustaining
phonation/breath
support
APRAXIA
FOR EXAMPLE: NACD Apraxia app
 oral/motor
 Use of mirror for visual
feedback – IPAD (selfies)
with reverse camera
 PROMPT (esp for velars)
 Speech Sounds on Cue
APP (practice at various
levels, including single
sound)
 First sound accuracy with
highly predicted sentence
completion
 Imitating inflection
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Minimal pairs, repetition,
sentence completion,
Opposites
Discussion of placement,
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Sentence Level
Monologue
Dialogue
Opposite-phrase
completion
HELPSS, WALC, LARK
word finding workbooks
Rote tasks: days of the
weeks, 1-10, months of
year.
Functional Daily words for
interaction: yes, no,
more, bed, help, toilet,
water, ouch, etc.
Augmentative tool/device
(incl. high or low tech)
Caregiver training
 Focus on Function books
Picture description, finish the
thought, sentence completion
 WALC, LARK, etc
 HELPPS
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Focus on function,
“Working with
Dysarthria” workbooks
Lists of words using
sounds to improve
targeted area (i.e. words
that start with “P”)
Combining gesture with
single word
Combining pointing to
letter of alphabet with
single word to aid listener
Caregiver training
Functional phrase,
biographical info, LSVT,
formulate response in
sentence
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manner of production,
word drills, visual
cues/pictures
Idioms, similes, proverbs
MIT
PROMPT
Caregiver training
Conversational tx with
model – my name is….
Sentence building,
increasing length of
utterance
Use of mirror to reduce
secondary behaviours
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Presentation to other
staff on topic of choice
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Use of mirror to reduce
secondary behaviours
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Presentation to other
staff on topic of choice
Focus on Function books
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Focus on function books
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Telephone therapy
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Use of mirror to reduce
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Telephone conversations
secondary behaviours