1990/04/01 by Susan E. Kohn, Katherine L. Smith, Joan Kelly Arsenault · 2 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism #Language Development and Disorders #Reading and Literacy Development
paper · doi:10.3109/13682829009011962
openalex publication_date 1990/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/24
Repetition is viewed typically as a primary deficit in conduction aphasia. Consequently, repetition is considered to be a target of treatment, as opposed to an approach to treatment for this syndrome. However, our experience with a conduction aphasic who had greater speech fluency in repetition than in conversation encouraged us to develop a treatment programme based on sentence repetition. The treatment programme has three components: (1) a pre-/post-test of sentence repetition; (2) the treatment component, in which a new set of sentences is introduced each week in outpatient therapy for daily repetition; (3) analysis of verbal picture description prior to and following treatment as an independent language measure. The patient CM participated in 2 months of sentence repetition treatment, after which he displayed improvement in both sentence repetition and picture description. The reasons for such improvement and the general utility of the treatment programme are discussed.