The Effect of Incorporating Knowledge of Performance in the Treatment of Aprosodia

Rodriguez, Amy D. and Patel, Sona and Bashiti, Nour and Shrivastav, Rahul and Rosenbek, John C. (2011) The Effect of Incorporating Knowledge of Performance in the Treatment of Aprosodia. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

[img] PDF
147-239-1-RV-Rodriguez.pdf

Download (104kB)

Abstract

Evidence suggests that expressive aprosodia, an impairment of emotional communication, results from a deficit in motor planning/programming. We investigated a treatment incorporating knowledge of performance (KP), an important component in motor learning. Four males with aprosodia following right hemisphere stroke completed 30 treatment sessions in which prosodic features of targets and responses were displayed using VisiPitch IV®. Perceptual analysis of a sentence-level outcome measure revealed significant improvement in emotional expression. Thus, KP in the form of visual/auditory feedback may be an important component in aprosodia treatments. Further investigation comparing this approach to traditional forms of clinician feedback is warranted.

Item Type: Clinical Aphasiology Paper
Depositing User: Bingmei Yan
Date Deposited: 10 Aug 2011
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2016 15:13
Conference: Clinical Aphasiology Conference > Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2011 : 41st : Fort Lauderdale, FL : May 31-June 4, 2011)
URI: http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2290

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item