Cross-Modal Improvements during Choral Reading: Case Studies

Cherney, Leora R. and Babbitt, Edna M. and Oldani, Jodi
Cross-Modal Improvements during Choral Reading: Case Studies. In Clinical Aphasiology Conference: Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2004 : 34th : Park City, UT : May 2004) / : (2004).

Abstract

Choral reading has been used to improve reading comprehension in patients with aphasia. This study illustrates the efficacy of choral reading with three subjects with chronic aphasia. Pre-treatment and post-treatment assessments were conducted. Also, a multiple baseline design across stimuli was used. Subjects were trained on one group of sentence stimuli until 90% accurate oral reading for two consecutive sessions was achieved on session probes. Treatment was then initiated on an untrained group of stimuli. Results indicated la nguage improvements; however, different language modalities improved across subjects. Plausible explanations for the differential cross- modal effects of choral reading are discussed.