Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation

The Verb Training and Sentence Production in Persian Language Patient with Non-Fluent Aphasia by Action Approach

Document Type : Case Report

Authors
S Delfani 1
Sh Hadavi 2
Sh Reisi 1
A Mehri 1
1 Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation,Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
10.22038/jpsr.2019.17592.1443
Abstract
Purpose:
The current study investigated the verb retrieval problems in people with non-fluent aphasia. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of ACTION plan on transitive and intransitive verbs retrieval in a Persian language person with non-fluent aphasia.
Case report:
This case report study, including 4 distinct parts: 1) pre-treatment evaluations (Persian Test of aphasia, Persian test of verb-naming and spontaneous speech). 2) six sessions of baseline 3) four phases of treatment for 12 weeks (First, verb naming, phase two and three, including the completion of the transitive and intransitive taught verbs, phase fourth is construction sentence for two and three phases) 4) post-treatment evaluations (Repeat evaluations before the treatment). The results obtained in this study through C statistics, visual diagram and percent recovery were reported.
Conclusions:
The results show that except the second stage of the treatment, first and second treatments were different with significance level of (p<0.05), the recovery had effect on untrained intransitive verbs. Recovery was the only after at the third phase for the untrained transitive verbs. In addition sentence construction with untrained verbs with completion and construction of trained transitive and intransitive verbs also significantly improved. The greatest improvement was for the sentence construction assignment through trained and untrained transitive verbs and lowest was for completion sentence by intransitive verbs. It can be concluded that this therapeutic approach for the treatment verb retrieval of Persian language patients with non-fluent aphasia is useful.
Keywords
Verb training- ACTION program- non-fluent aphasia- Persian language
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Journal of Paramedical Sciences & Rehabilitation
Volume 8, Issue 2
Summer 2019
Pages 87-97