The role of syntactic complexity in treatment of sentence deficits in agrammatic aphasia: The complexity account of treatment efficacy (CATE)

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 591-607

  Thompson, Cynthia K ^a   Shapiro, Lewis P ^b   Kiran, Swathi ^a   Sobecks, Jana ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasia; Generalization; Sentence production; Treatment

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL STIMULATION;

APHASIA, BROCA; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038275994     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/047)     Document Type: Article

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