Abstract
Constraint-induced aphasia therapy is a widely used method in the treatment after stroke. Focusing on the theoretical basis of the original conception of the constraint-induced procedure we first made a special adaptation for Hungarian aphasic patients. We have been applying this method since 2012. So far, we have accomplished the treatment of 7 groups including 22 patients. It was supposed that the intensive language therapy based on the certain language features such as phonologic, semantic, syntactic and pragmatic parameters can facilitate the abstraction of general linguistic rules. The data were measured by standard and special tests significant improvement occurred in both the expressive and receptive language by the help of patients’ intact cognitive functions. Regarding our data we assumed that the new elaborated version for Hungarian language of the constraint-induced aphasia therapy can facilitate the abstraction and generalization of linguistic rules and could improve the patients’ linguistic skills according to the original method.
Highlights
Aphasia is generally described as an impairment of language resulting from focal brain damage to the language-dominant cerebral hemisphere
Kertesz [2] clinically described aphasia as a ‘neurologically central disturbance of language characterized by paraphasias, word finding difficulty, and variably impaired comprehension, associated with disturbance of reading and writing, at times with dysarthria, nonverbal constructional and problem-solving difficulty and impairment of gesture’ [2]
Aphasia is usually caused by stroke affecting the left hemisphere in a right-handed person
Summary
Aphasia is generally described as an impairment of language resulting from focal brain damage to the language-dominant cerebral hemisphere. Kertesz [2] clinically described aphasia as a ‘neurologically central disturbance of language characterized by paraphasias, word finding difficulty, and variably impaired comprehension, associated with disturbance of reading and writing, at times with dysarthria, nonverbal constructional and problem-solving difficulty and impairment of gesture’ [2]. This definition is the basis of the differential diagnostic procedures of aphasia in general [3], as well as in Hungary. Aphasia is usually caused by stroke affecting the left hemisphere in a right-handed person. Aphasia treatment is one of the most important fields of the multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation program
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