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Article: Research from University of California yields new findings on aphasia.(Report)
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- April 29, 2009
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"Apraxia of speech (AOS) is a disorder of expressive speech attributed to an impairment at the motor planning and programming phases of speech production. AOS is treated in different ways but the articulatory kinematic approach is usually followed," investigators in the United States report (see also Aphasia).
"The intervention described in this study introduces a new approach toward treatment of AOS with aphasia through the use of implicit manipulation of phonemes via rhyming, deletion and alliteration tasks. Theoretical models propose that during lexical retrieval, associated areas responsible for motor planning and the preparation of the utterance are ...