| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aphasia.
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Aphasia. |
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Aphasic persons -- Rehabilitation.
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Aphasic persons -- Rehabilitation. |
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Speech therapy.
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Speech therapy. |
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Aphasia -- therapy. |
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Speech Therapy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Basso, Anna. Aphasia and its therapy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003 0195135873 9780195135879 (DLC) 2002025037 (OCoLC)49529931 |
| ISBN |
9780198031055 (electronic book) |
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019803105X (electronic book) |
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0195135873 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
2952692 |
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