31.1954, FYI: Online Lecture 6/18: Aimee Dietz; AAC in language rehab.

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Subject: 31.1954, FYI: Online Lecture 6/18: Aimee Dietz; AAC in language rehab.

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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:16:27
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online Lecture 6/18: Aimee Dietz; AAC in language rehab.

 
Thursday, June 18, 2020, 2pm ET
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

The Role of AAC in the Post-Stroke Language Recovery Process
Aimee Dietz, PhD, CCC-SLP
University of Cincinnati

Traditionally, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) interventions
are considered for people with post-stroke aphasia when traditional
restorative interventions have been exhausted, or when the aphasia is so
severe that spoken language is minimal. Less often, AAC is regarded as a
viable tool for those with more significant comprehension challenges, or for
those with a milder aphasia severity. This approach to the use of AAC in
aphasia rehabilitation is likely multifaceted and based on myths that persist
due to a lack of empirical evidence demonstrating the power of AAC (Dietz, et
al. 2020). I will present a theoretical framework that explains how AAC can be
implemented at all stages of rehabilitation and for people with all types of
aphasia and severity levels (Dietz et al., 2014; 2018; 2020; Griffith et al.,
2014). I will also share behavioral and neuroimaging data from a feasibility
study (Dietz et al., 2018) and ongoing work that examines the impact of a
novel high-tech AAC intervention designed to harness the principles of neural
plasticity and serve as a dual-purpose tool that simultaneously supports
communication and facilitates spoken language production for people with
various types of aphasia and severity. These findings, especially when
considered together the extant data on using no-tech AAC strategies such as
gesturing, drawing, and multimodal approaches (e.g., Pierce et al., 2019) to
elicit word retrieval offer strong incentive for clinicians and researchers
alike to reconsider the role of AAC in aphasia rehabilitation.

This lecture can be followed online from your computer, tablet or smartphone,
via a link that will be provided on the C-STAR website:
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/
 



Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics





 



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