Retraining speech production and fluency in non-fluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia.

ABSTRACT: The non-fluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) presents with a gradual decline in grammar and motor speech resulting from selective degeneration of speech-language regions in the brain. There has been considerable progress in identifying treatment approaches to remediate language deficits in other primary progressive aphasia variants; however, interventions for the core deficits in nfvPPA have yet to be systematically investigated. Further, the neural mechanisms that support behavioural restitution in the context of neurodegeneration are not well understood. We examined the immediate and long-term benefits of video implemented script training for aphasia (VISTA) in 10 individuals with nfvPPA. The treatment approach involved repeated rehearsal of individualized sc

SUBMITTER: Henry ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5972572 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature