Different from a textbook or academic journal, the File represents a collection of explicit descriptions about therapy interventions written by practitioners themselves. The description of the rationale for the therapy, the intervention itself and evaluation of outcomes are of paramount importance. Each contributor guides the reader through the thinking that they engaged in as they decided what to do, often with considerable frankness about the difficulties involved. The File will be of equal value to experienced practitioners and students alike.
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Introduction. Section
1. Alternative Forms of Output. Introduction: When
There's No Spoken Output. D. Harding, C.Pound, Needs, Function and
Measurement: Juggling with Multiple Language Impairment. J. Hunt, Drawing on
the Semantic System: The Use of Drawing as a Therapy Medium with a Woman with
Severe Expressive Aphasia. R. Lawson, M. Fawcus, Increasing Effective
Communication Using a Total Communication Approach. Section
2. Word Retrieval
Therapies. Introduction: Therapies for Word Finding Utilising Orthographic
Relay Strategies. J. Mortley, Evaluating the Efficacy of an Intensive
Strategy Based Therapy Programme for Spelling Impairment. M. White-Thompson,
Naming Therapy for an Aphasiac with Fluent Empty Speech. J. Sheriden, A
Treatment Programme for an Impairment in Reading Function Words. Section
3.
Beyond the Single Word Therapies. Introduction: Therapies Addressing the
Impairments in Processing Verbs and Sentences. J. Marshall , Doing Something
About Verbs and Sentences: Two Therapy Approaches. A. Greenwood, Early Stages
in Treating a Person with Non-fluent Aphasia. J. Marshall, `Who Ends Up With
the Fiver?' A Sentence Production Therapy. K. Swinburn, An Informal Example
of a Successful Therapy or a Sentence Processing Deficit.
