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Preface | |
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Introduction to Acquired Language Disorders | |
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Diagnosing aphasia | |
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Describing aphasia | |
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Explaining aphasia | |
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Treating aphasia | |
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Causes of the Aphasias | |
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Stroke Ischemic stroke | |
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Hemorrhage Tumor | |
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Focal cortical atrophy | |
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Clinical neurological examination | |
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Clinical brain imaging | |
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Localization and dissociation | |
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Clinical syndromes of aphasia | |
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Exceptional aphasias | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Clinical Assessment And Diagnosis | |
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The first visit | |
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Diagnostic decisions | |
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Standard testing | |
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Psychometric constraints: The PICA | |
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Diagnosing syndromes: The Boston Exam | |
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Numerical classification: The WAB | |
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Diagnosing modular impairment: PALPA | |
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Brief tests and bedside screening | |
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Supplemental tests | |
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Notes on interpretation | |
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Martin Exeter's initial report | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Investigating Aphasia in General | |
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Basic research in clinical aphasiology | |
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Word processing | |
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Sentence comprehension | |
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Explaining sentence comprehension deficit | |
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Object naming | |
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Productive word-finding | |
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Reading words | |
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Aphasia in bilingual individuals | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Investigating Symptoms and Syndromes | |
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Agrammatism Asyntactic comprehension | |
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Anomic aphasia | |
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Conduction aphasia | |
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Wernicke's aphasia | |
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Universal aphasia | |
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Martin Exeter's aphasia | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Discourse and Communication | |
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Pragmatic language | |
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Discourse and text | |
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Discourse comprehension with aphasia | |
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Aphasic discourse production | |
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Conversation | |
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Nonverbal modalities | |
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Overall functional status | |
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Assessment of functional communication | |
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Assessing life participation | |
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Martin Exeter's functional skills | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Recovery and Prognosis | |
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Stroke and functional outcomes | |
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Measuring recovery of language | |
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Approaches to prognosis | |
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Type of stroke | |
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Severity of impairment | |
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Type of impairment | |
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Other factors | |
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Making the targeted prognosis | |
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Bilingual recovery | |
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Explaining recovery | |
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Martin Exeter's recovery | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Principles of Language Restoration | |
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Cognitive stimulation | |
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Programmed stimulation | |
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Measurement and generalization | |
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Word-finding | |
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Computer-assisted treatment | |
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Group treatment | |
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Efficacy of standard aphasia treatment | |
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Medical treatments | |
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Health care topics | |
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Notes from the clinic | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Targeting Specific Disorders | |
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Studying individual cases | |
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Agrammatic production: Empirical treatments | |
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Agrammatic production: Theory-driven treatments | |
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Asyntactic comprehension | |
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Wernicke's aphasia | |
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Conduction aphasia | |
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Anomic or mild aphasia | |
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Reading impairments | |
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Summary and conclusion | |
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Functional Therapeutics | |
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Philosophy: The clinical-functional gap | |
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Functional stimulation | |
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Compensatory behaviors | |
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Interactive therapies | |
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Life participation | |
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The challenge of severe or global aphasia | |
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Psychosocial adjustment | |
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Documenting functional outcome | |
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Martin's conclusion | |
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Summary and conclusions | |
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Right Hemisphere Disorders | |
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Clinical neuropsychology | |
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Awareness of deficits | |
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Left neglect and reading | |
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Visuospatial orientation | |
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Constructional skills | |
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Problems with sound | |
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Emotion and prosody | |
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Speaker meaning | |
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Discourse | |
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What is RHD syndrome? | |
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Clinical assessment | |
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Treatment | |
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Recovery and outcomes | |
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Summary and conclusions | |