All chapters include “Summary and Conclusions.”
1.Introduction to Acquired Language Disorders.
Defining Aphasia.
Describing Aphasia.
Explaining Aphasia.
Treating Aphasia.
2.Causes of Aphasia.
Stroke.
Ischemic Stroke.
Hemorrhage.
Tumor.
Other Neuropathologies.
Clinical Neurological Examination.
Clinical Brain Imaging.
Localization and Dissociation.
Clinical Syndromes of Aphasia.
Exceptional Aphasias.
3.Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis.
Comprehensive Neuropsychological Evaluation.
Aphasia Tests.
Psychometric Constraints: The PICA.
Diagnosing Syndromes: The Boston Exam.
Numerical Classification: The WAB.
Saving Time.
Common Supplemental Tests.
Notes on Interpretation.
Martin Exeter's Initial Report.
4.Investigating Aphasia in General.
Basic Research in Clinical Aphasiology.
Language-Specific Disorder.
Word Processing.
Sentence Comprehension.
Explaining Sentence Comprehension Deficit.
Object Naming.
Productive Word-Finding.
5.Investigating Symptoms and Syndromes.
Agrammatism.
Comprehension with Agrammatism.
Anomic Aphasia.
Conduction Aphasia.
Wernicke's Aphasia.
Martin Exeter's Aphasia.
6.Special Investigations.
Modality-Specific Naming Problems.
More Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Universal Aphasia.
Aphasia in Bilingual Individuals.
7.Functional Communication and Discourse.
Nonverbal Modalities.
Pragmatic Language.
Discourse and Text.
Aphasic Discourse Production.
Discourse Comprehension with Aphasia.
Conversation.
Overall Functional Status.
Assessment of Functional Communication.
Martin Exeter's Functional Skills.
8.Right Hemisphere Disorders.
Language Evaluation.
Awareness of Deficits.
Visuospatial Functions.
Auditory-Vocal Modalities.
Emotion.
Secondary Language Deficits.
Speaker Meaning.
Discourse.
Clinical Assessment.
Martin Exeter's Right Hemisphere.
9.Traumatic Brain Injury and Related Syndromes.
Head Trauma.
The Trauma Unit.
Clinical Neuropsychology.
Attention.
Perception and Recognition.
Memory.
Executive Functions.
Frontal Lobe Syndromes.
Insight and Emotion.
Language.
Discourse.
10.Recovery and Prognosis.
Stroke and Functional Outcomes.
Measuring Recovery of Language.
Approaches to Prognosis.
Type of Stroke.
Severity of Impairment.
Type of Impairment.
Other Factors.
Bilingual Recovery.
Traumatic Brain Injury.
Explaining Recovery.
Martin Exeter's Recovery.
11.Principles of Language Restoration.
Rehabilitation Settings.
Treating an Impairment.
Behavior Modification.
Cognitive Stimulation.
Programmed Stimulation.
Word-Finding.
Measurement and Generalization.
Computer-Assisted Treatment.
Group Treatment.
Efficacy of Standard Aphasia Treatment.
Managed Care.
Patient-Oriented Decisions.
12.Functional Therapeutics and Outcomes.
Bridging the Clinical-Functional Gap.
Functional Stimulation.
Compensatory Behaviors.
Interactive Therapies.
Partners and Settings.
Changing Communicative Contexts.
Psychosocial Adjustment.
Documenting Functional Outcome.
13.Targeting Specific Disorders.
Studying Individual Cases.
Global Aphasia.
Agrammatic Production: Empirical Treatments.
Agrammatic Production: Theory-Driven Treatments.
Asyntactic Comprehension.
Wernicke's Aphasia.
Conduction Aphasia.
Anomic or Mild Aphasia.
Reading Impairments.
References.
