What is it about?
Strategies for facilitating use of familiar names in a language impaired rehabilitation center patients using Spaced Retrieval therapy techniques.
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Why is it important?
This population frequently suffers from word retrieval difficulty and may greatly benefit from a therapeutic technique which may facilitation the use of familiar names in a rehabilitation or other therapy situation.
Perspectives
Patients with aphasia, dementia or other cognitive challenges often become frustrated when attempting to recall names of people in their environment. This technique may be used to enable them to have greater success in a home or institutional setting.
Elaine Sands
Adelphi University
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This page is a summary of: Spaced Retrieval Using Static and Dynamic Images to Improve Face–Name Recognition: Alzheimer's Dementia and Vascular Dementia, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, August 2019, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0131.
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