Naming of Objects and Actions after Treatment with Phonological Components Analysis in Aphasia

Abstract

Aphasia induced by neurological injury or disease such as stroke or traumatic brain injury prevents people from conveying wishes and needs and from participating in everyday communication. Anomia, or word retrieval difficulties, is a persistent symptom in essentially all types of aphasia [1]. The ability to name, for example, objects and actions varies between individuals and may be affected to different degrees depending on location of the brain damage [2-4] as well as by linguistic factors and the frequency of occurrence of the words to be produced [5]. The targets of anomia treatment may vary, but they often concern either the semantic content or the sound structure of the lexeme of the words [6]. Typically, nouns are Objectives: To explore the effects of intensive treatment with phonological components analysis on naming of both objects and actions.