Overt use of a tactile/kinaesthetic strategy shifts to covert processing in rehabilitation of letter-by-letter reading

Aphasiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1424-1442

  Lott, Susan Nitzberg ^a   Carney, Aimee Syms ^a   Glezer, Laurie S ^a   Friedman, Rhonda B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Cognitive rehabilitation; Generalisation; Letter by letter reading; Pure alexia; Speech language pathology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; LETTER BY LETTER READING; MALE; READING; REHABILITATION CARE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77957597286     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030903580333     Document Type: Article

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