Table 3 from Effects of Semantic Treatment on Verbal Communication and Linguistic Processing in Aphasia After Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial | Semantic Scholar (2024)

This study does not confirm the hypothesis that patients with aphasia after stroke benefit more from CLT, aimed at activation of the underlying semantic and phonologic processes, than from general, nonspecific communicative treatment.

The hypothesis that patients with aphasia after stroke benefit more from CLT, aimed at activation of the underlying semantic and phonologic processes, than from general, non-specific communicative treatment is not confirmed.

Semantic treatment may be more beneficial to the improvement of naming performance in aphasia than phonological treatment, at the group-level, and biographical and neuropsychological baseline factors predictive of response to each treatment are examined.

The relative impact of semantic and phonological deficits on verbal communication is explored and the results of both diagnostic and therapeutic studies in patients with aphasia after stroke are presented.

Four weeks of intensive cognitive-linguistic treatment initiated within 2 weeks of stroke is not more effective than no language treatment for the recovery of post-stroke aphasia, and this results exclude a clinically relevant effect of very early cognitive-centred treatment on everyday language.

LSS treatment may improve episodic memory in AD patients and may be regarded as a clinical option to counteract the cognitive decline typical of the disease.

In patients with fluent aphasia, intensive treatment has a significant effect on language and verbal communication, intensive therapy results in selective treatment effects, and an intensive semantic treatment shows a more striking mean improvement on verbal communication in comparison with communication-based CIAT treatment.

The results indicate that performance in a picture naming task differs from retrieval in connected speech, and it is important to include connected speech tasks in language assessment of PWA to better evaluate the ability to participate in everyday conversation.

It is suggested that the underlying treatment strategy, in this case knowledge about object shape and function, was a more potent factor in treatment outcome than the modality (gesture versus verbal) in which the strategy was presented.

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The utility of using an interactive activation model to plan treatment based on levels of disruption in the lexical processing system is demonstrated and semantic treatment resulted in improved naming of both trained and untrained items.

Results revealed acquisition and maintenance effects of L-SAIT on targeted lexical items, no effects of placebo or active pharmacological agents in the presence and absence of a behavioural intervention termed lexical-semantic activation inhibition therapy (L-SAit).

Improvement on the computerized reading treatment tasks generalized to non-computer language performance, improvement resulted from the language content of the software and not stimulation provided by a computer, and the computerizing reading treatment provided to chronic aphasic patients was efficacious.

It was concluded that neither the Systematic Therapy program for Auditory Comprehension Disorders nor the conventional stimulation therapy had any clear effect on the recovery process of the treated patients in groups 1 and 2.

The ScreeLing is an accurate test that can be easily administered and scored to detect aphasia in the first weeks after stroke and is suitable for revealing underlying linguistic deficits, especially semantic and phonological deficits.

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