Interdisciplinary Programs in Communication Disorders
The Graduate School, Ewha Womans University
Constraint induced language therapy (CILT) focuses on improving acquired expressive language deficits after stroke by applying intensive, short-term th...
Interdisciplinary Programs in Communication Disorders
The Graduate School, Ewha Womans University
Constraint induced language therapy (CILT) focuses on improving acquired expressive language deficits after stroke by applying intensive, short-term therapy with a heavy emphasis on verbal language.
The purpose of the present study was to explore outcome of a programme of CILT in korean individuals with aphasia. For this purpose, the study investigated language abilities through standardized test measures and language sample by Correct Information Unit analysis.
Six korean individuals with aphasia caused by left hemisphere stroke participated in this study. This study was performed as follows; A 10-day/2.3 hours a day CILT intervention case series was carried out with six korean individuals with aphasia following left CVA. Procedures involved card activities using high and low frequency picture stimuli with communicative relevance at four levels of complexity, either in a small group with a SLP. Participants took turns verbally asking for a card from their partner. A barrier was placed between participants to ensure that they could not use gesture or hand writing to facilitate their requests.
In this study, the pretest-posttest design was used. The performances of all subjects were analyzed using a Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test.
The results obtained in this study were as follows: (1) There was a significant increase in Aphasia Quotient of Korean version-the Western Aphasia Battery of the post-treatment condition compared to the pre-treatment. (2) There was a significant increase in Korean version-Boston Naming Test of the post-treatment condition compared to the pre-treatment. (3) There was a significant increase in Correct Information Unit analysis of the post-treatment condition compared to the pre-treatment.
Results from this study indicated that CILT program using intensive and forced-use verbal language modality was beneficial to language performance of korean individuals with aphasia.
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