31.821, FYI: Online Lecture 2/27: Maya Henry, Prim Prog Aphasia

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Subject: 31.821, FYI:  Online Lecture 2/27: Maya Henry, Prim Prog Aphasia

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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:51:03
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online Lecture 2/27: Maya Henry, Prim Prog Aphasia

 
Thursday, February 27th, 11am ET
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http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

Finding words: Speech-language intervention in primary progressive aphasia
Maya Henry, PhD., CCC-SLP
The University of Texas at Austin

Speech-language impairment may be a prominent or primary feature of
neurodegenerative disease (Gorno-Tempini et al., 2011). Although many studies
document the benefits of behavioral intervention for aphasia caused by stroke,
there is a relative paucity of research examining the benefits of treatment
for patients with progressive aphasia (primary progressive aphasia (PPA) or
language-prominent Alzheimer’s disease/MCI). I will present findings from
several studies (Henry et al., 2018; 2019; Dial et al., 2019; Grasso et al.,
2017) as well as additional data documenting the immediate and long-term
benefits of treatment for speech and language in PPA and language-prominent
AD/MCI. In addition to restitutive interventions, I will discuss interventions
focused on compensatory adaptations such as augmentative and alternative
communication and communication partner training. Results to-date document
robust treatment effects immediately post-treatment, as well as maintenance of
gains for the majority of participants, many up to one-year post-treatment.
Generalization to untrained targets and tasks was observed for many
participants, but was more pronounced for some clinical variants and treatment
types. Neuroimaging data indicate that treatment-induced recovery of function
is mediated by relatively spared regions within language and memory networks
as well as language network homologues in the right hemisphere. Taken
together, these findings offer compelling evidence in support of
speech-language intervention for patients with PPA and other
language-prominent dementia syndromes.

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Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics





 



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