Forums in Clinical Aphasiology

Forums in Clinical Aphasiology......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 13
Part 1: Issues in Clinical Aphasiology......Page 14
Clinical Forum 1: Reapportioning time for aphasia rehabilitation: a point of view......Page 18
Global aphasia: the case for treatment......Page 33
Is there support for assumptions underlying ‘Reapportioning time for aphasia rehabilitation: a point of view’?......Page 38
Comments on ‘Reapportioning time for aphasia rehabilitation: a point of view’ – a suggestion in search of support......Page 43
Reapportioning time for aphasia rehabilitation: a point of view. Reply to Wertz, Edelman and Parsons......Page 47
Clinical Forum 2: The cognitive cloud and language disorders......Page 52
Commentary: Carving the cognitive chicken......Page 63
Biological constraints on the description of cognitive functions: a silver lining in the cloud?......Page 69
Language and cognition – problems of their vivisection......Page 73
Cognitive cloud: thunderheads on the horizon?......Page 78
Cognitive science and the language/ cognition distinction......Page 81
Reply: On carved chickens, silver linings, vivisection, and thunderheads......Page 84
Clinical Forum 3: The relation of aphasia to dementia......Page 92
Dementia and dysphasia: ‘like asking a blind man to describe an elephant’......Page 105
Language disorders in dementia as aphasia syndromes......Page 110
Alzheimer versus Broca and Wernicke......Page 115
Studies of dementia: in search of the linguistic/cognitive interaction underlying communication......Page 118
Aphasia and dementia: steps towards a new era in neuropsychology......Page 121
Reply: Language in dementia: agreement?......Page 124
Part 2: Assessing for Treatment......Page 126
Clinical Forum 4: Aphasia tests reconsidered......Page 130
Commentary: Cognitive psychology and clinical aphasiology......Page 155
What should be the core of aphasia tests?(The authors promise but fail to deliver)......Page 158
Aphasia assessment: the acid tests......Page 163
Diagnostic tests as tools of assessment and models of information processing: a gap to bridge......Page 168
Missing the wood and the trees: a reply to David, Kertesz, Goodglass and Weniger......Page 173
Clinical Forum 5: Using the PICA in clinical practice: are we flogging a dead horse?......Page 182
Don’t throw out the Porch with the bathwater: a second look at the future of the PICA......Page 188
To be or not to be: the PICA is the question......Page 192
The PICA revisited......Page 195
Usin the PICA in clinical practice: a reply to Di Simoni and Merson, Crockett and Purves and Martin......Page 200
Clinical forum 6: Functional assessment of communication: merging public policy with clinical views......Page 202
Functional communication assessment and intervention: some thoughts on the state of the art......Page 223
Functional assessment of communication: implications for the rehabilitation of aphasic people: reply to Carol Frattali......Page 232
Functional assessment: a clinical perspective......Page 238
Functional communication assessment: an Australian perspective......Page 241
Beyond barriers: a reply to Chapey, Sacchett and Marshall, Scherzer, and Worrall......Page 247
Part 3: Computers in Clinical Aphasiology......Page 254
Clinical Forum 7: Efficacy of aphasia treatment using microcomputers......Page 256
Microcomputers in assessment, rehabilitation and recreation......Page 265
Unfounded expectations: computers in rehabilitation......Page 271
Cognition first, microprocessor second......Page 274
Microcomputers and treatment of aphasia......Page 277
Reply: Common ground......Page 283
Clinical Forum 8: Computer-based aphasia treatment meets artificial intelligence......Page 288
Where the intelligent therapist fears to tread: commentary on Guyard et al.......Page 303
Intelligent computerized treatment or artificial aphasia therapy?......Page 308
Artificial intelligence enters speech therapy: a comment on Guyard et al.......Page 312
Introducing artificial intelligence into aphasiological data analysis: answers......Page 317
Part 4: Psychosocial Issues......Page 322
Clinical Forum 9: The grief response in neuropathologies of speech and language......Page 326
Response to Tanner and Gerstenberger......Page 332
Brain, cognition and grief......Page 335
Relationships between emotional and linguistic impairment in aphasia......Page 339
Responses to grief? Responses to commentaries......Page 341
Clinical Forum 10: Aphasia and family therapy......Page 346
Aphasia and family therapy: innovative, but untested......Page 350
Response to aphasia and family therapy......Page 353
Aphasiology and family therapy – development of the subject......Page 355
On the possible value of family therapy in aphasia rehabilitation......Page 357
Aphasia and family therapy: a reply to Smith, McGuirk, Knapik and Herrmann......Page 359
Clinical Forum 11: Losing your sense of self: what aphasia can do......Page 362
Empathy and aphasia rehabilitation – are there contradictory requirements of treatment and psychological support?......Page 368
The point of view of the clinician......Page 372
Finding a new sense of self: what the clinician can do to help......Page 374
Concern for the aphasic person’s sense of self: why, who and how?......Page 377
Response: the primacy of self......Page 382
Index......Page 386