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Published on: July 2, 2013
Effect of speech therapy intervention program for non-fluent aphasic patients after stroke
Amália Maria Nucci Freire1, Rubens José Gagliardi1, Michele Devido Dos Santos1
1Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo. São Paulo (SP), Brasil.
Purpose:
the objective of this paper is to verify the effect of speech therapy intervention program in patients with non-fluent aphasia due to stroke in language tasks related to verbal fluency in semantic and phonological categories.
Methods:
Patients with aphasia due to stroke were selected to take part in this study. Two groups were formed: diagnosed patients with Broca/transcortical motor aphasia (GA), and a control group (healthy individuals). GA took a fluency verbal task (FAS, other complementary categories: phonological /p/ /l/ and semantic: "fruits" and "names"). These patients were all engaged in a language intervention program developed by the authors of this study. GA received speech therapy sessions (ten sessions lasting for an hour once a week), following a specific language program. After the sessions, the patients were re-evaluated.
Results:
GA had statistical significant improvement in the verbal fluency task after the speech therapy program (p-value < 0,001).
Conclusion:
The speech language therapy program we proposed was efficient enough to show improvement in the results for GA in the verbal fluency task.
