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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 | |