Article: Study findings from University of Manchester broaden understanding of aphasia.(Report)

"Improving verb naming in people with aphasia should enable expession of a wider range of sentence types and meanings, and may have wider benefits for connected speech. Estableshing the optimal therapy methods for improving verb naming is, therefore, of substantial clinical importance," scientists writing in the journal Aphasiology report (see also Aphasia).

"This study investigated whether cueing sentence production would improve verb-naming accuracy to a greater extent than the more typical, single-word verb-cueing therapies. A second aim was to examine the extent to which verb picture naming improvements would generalise to naming of the same items in dynamic ...