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The study aimed to determine the efficacy of a Conversational Therapy approach in
the treatment of chronic patients with moderately severe non-fluent aphasia.
Eight patients completed a six week intensive language training. Every two weeks,
each patient received rehabilitation using a different videoclip depicting
everyday life. To elicit verbal communication, patients were required to observe
each videoclip and to converse about it with the help of an experienced
clinician. To measure any significant improvement in speech production all
patients were tested before and after treatment. A significant increase in their
ability to produce correct informative words (C-Units), verbs, nouns, adjectives,
adverbs, as well as closed-class words (pronouns, articles and conjunctions) and
well-formed sentences was found after therapy. Such improvement persisted at one
week and one month after the end of the treatment. These results suggest that
conversational therapy, applied through intensive language training, has a
significant efficacy in the recovery of verbal communication in chronic
non-fluent aphasic individuals. This approach should be considered for patients
with moderately severe non-fluent aphasia, as it enhances not only the ability to
use informative language but also its correct use in daily living.

Langue : ANGLAIS