Language Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Imaging short- and long-term training success in chronic aphasia.

20 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: To date, functional imaging studies of treatment-induced recovery from chronic aphasia only assessed short-term treatment effects after intensive language training. In the present study, we show with functional magnetic resonance imaging ... Read more...

N400 responses of children with primary language disorder: intervention effects.

3 Aug 2009 Event-related brain potentials were examined in 6 to 8-year-old children with primary language disorder before and after a 5-week narrative-based language intervention. Participants listened to sentences ending with semantically congruous or ... Read more...

Early home-based intervention in the Netherlands for children at familial risk of dyslexia.

30 Jul 2009 Dutch children at higher familial risk of reading disability received a home-based intervention programme before formal reading instruction started to investigate whether this would reduce the risk of dyslexia. The experimental group (n=23) received ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Language Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Imaging short- and long-term training success in chronic aphasia. 20 Sep 2009
• N400 responses of children with primary language disorder: intervention effects. 3 Aug 2009
• Early home-based intervention in the Netherlands for children at familial risk of dyslexia. 30 Jul 2009
• Computer-based training with ortho-phonological units in dyslexic children: new investigations. 30 Jul 2009
• Lesion characteristics related to treatment improvement in object and action naming for patients with chronic aphasia. 19 Jul 2009
• Effective early literacy skill development for young Spanish-speaking English language learners: an experimental study of two methods. 29 Apr 2009
• Memantine and constraint-induced aphasia therapy in chronic poststroke aphasia. 29 Apr 2009
• Auditory processing disorders: can they be treated? 30 Mar 2009
• Making a broader case for the narrow view: where to begin? 30 Mar 2009
• New approach to the rehabilitation of post-stroke focal cognitive syndrome: effect of levodopa combined with speech and language therapy on functional recovery from aphasia. 7 Mar 2009
• The relationship between non-linguistic cognitive deficits and language recovery in patients with aphasia. 4 Mar 2009
• Speech acquisition in older nonverbal individuals with autism: a review of features, methods, and prognosis. 27 Feb 2009
• Referential communication skills of children with Williams syndrome: understanding when messages are not adequate. 27 Feb 2009
• Home or away? Community rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury: a case report. 27 Feb 2009
• Effect of different treatments in young children with language problems. 18 Feb 2009
• Communicative abilities in toddlers and in early school age children with cleft palate. 8 Feb 2009
• Improved single-letter identification after whole-word training in pure alexia. 30 Jan 2009
• [Intense language training for aphasia. Contribution of cognitive factors] 30 Jan 2009
• Laughter and communicative engagement in interaction. 12 Jan 2009
• Engagement: a concept and some possible uses. 12 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Language Therapy'

Definition: Rehabilitation of persons with language disorders or training of children with language development disorders.

Descriptor UI: D007808

Alternative terms: Language Therapy; Therapy, Language; Language Therapies; Therapies, Language; Language Training; Language Trainings; Training, Language; Trainings, Language;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.831.727.344;

History Note: 80

Technical Notes: do not confuse with SPEECH THERAPY: LANGUAGE THERAPY is for LANGUAGE DISORDERS; SPEECH THERAPY is for SPEECH DISORDERS; coord IM with specific lang disord /ther (IM), not /rehabil