Aphasia Models
Presented by Diane Kendall
Non-Financial: Diane Kendall has no competing non-financial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Meet your instructor
Diane Kendall
Dr. Kendall is a Full Professor at the University of Washington Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences. Her research program is focused on rehabilitation of aphasia. She, along with her colleagues, has created a treatment for linguistic deficits in aphasia called Phonomotor Treatment. Through a Veterans Administration…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Background & Definitions
Describe how language is both lateralized and localized. Provide a working definition of aphasia.
2. Classical Aphasia Syndromes
Describe symptoms of Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia and Conduction aphasia. Provide 3 reasons why the classical aphasia syndromes are not useful in treatment planning.
3. Models
Provide recent evidence based meta-analysis study demonstrating that language is distributed. Describe the processing assumptions of a modular model. Describe the processing assumptions of a distributed model
4. Errors
Ascribe errors (phonologic, semantic, mixed) to Dell's model. Discuss how a distributed model explains errors. Describe the difference between bottom-up and top-down errors.
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