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Updated aphasia practices can make rehabilitation more effective
What is it about?
Despite advances in science, old theories and practices about damage to language areas of the brain are abundant. A case study is presented involving a person who had a stroke in the language areas. Updated scientific theories were used to understand the injury and decide best rehabilitation strategies. Modern theories and practices can help treatments be much more specific to a person's unique injury and help them more effectively.
Why is it important?
Aphasia clinicians have a lot of science to keep up with and are busy practicing. Newer theories and practices, when not taught explicitly in graduate school or substantial continuing education, can seem too removed from real world practice to realistically incorporate. This case study explicitly demonstrates how modern models of aphasia were used in a typical busy medical practice setting, and how it ultimately was more targeted from the outset.