Speech pathology services for primary progressive aphasia: Exploring an emerging area of practice

Aphasiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-174

  Taylor, Cathleen ^a   Kingma, Rachel Miles ^a   Croot, Karen ^b   Nickels, Lyndsey ^c  

^a War Memorial Hospital   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intervention; Language; Primary progressive aphasia; Speech pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACILITATED COMMUNICATION; GROUP THERAPY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; SPEECH THERAPY;

EID: 60149096936     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030801943039     Document Type: Article

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