Treatment
•Start where the patient is successful.
•Increase therapy in small steps.
•Reduce visual and verbal cues gradually so that discourse becomes more natural.
•Extend treatment from concrete to abstract stimuli.
•Work on auditory-verbal memory enhancement.
•Provide immediate feedback and encouragement as patients become
easily frustrated.
Therapeutic Options:
*Life Participation Approach to Aphasia
*RET (Response Elaboration Training) to improve content words used to describe a picture
*Narrative story cards to facilitate accurate recall of information and optimize discourse skills for daily needs
*Divergent word retrieval to stimulate word retrieval by asking the patient to visualize and name as many of a specific category as can be recalled.
(Klein & Mancinelli, 2010).