Nonlinguistic Cognitive Factors Predict Treatment-Induced Recovery in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if pretreatment nonlinguistic cognition predicted language treatment outcomes and if so, which specific nonlinguistic cognitive subskills predicted naming therapy outcomes.

Design

Retrospective.

Setting

Research clinic.

Participants

Study 1 included data from 67 persons with aphasia who underwent language treatment and a pretreatment cognitive-linguistic assessment battery (N=67). Study 2 included data from 27 study 1 participants who completed additional pretreatment nonlinguistic cognitive assessments.

Interventions

120-minute sessions of sentence comprehension (n=26) or naming treatment (n=41) 2 times per week for up to 10-12 weeks.

Main outcome measures

Proportion of potential maximal gain (PMG) (assessed immediately aft

SUBMITTER: Gilmore N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599561 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature