DEFINITIONS OF APHASIA
• Etiology of aphasia
• Clinical features (linguistic, psycho-social and neurobehavioral) and Differential diagnosis
• Classification of aphasia based on anatomical, linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects.
• Approaches to aphasia assessment, including, discourse analysis, cognitive neuropsychological frameworks and quality of life measures; issues surrounding diagnostic testing and classificatory labels.
• Psychosocial issues in aphasia, including depression, employment, and the disabled identity in aphasia
• Recovery, the effects of SLT intervention and outcome research design
• Cognitive ability in aphasia
• Aphasia in bilingual population
• Assessment of skills (linguistic, cognitive and communicative ) informal and formal procedures.
• Intervention :
• Prognostic indicators
• spontaneous recovery
• General Principles _
• Specific approaches / techniques
• Group therapy
• AAC
• Role of family.
• Linguistic investigations in aphasia.
• Associated problems in aphasia.
• Primary Progressive Aphasia.
• Research design in adult acquired language deficits and aspects of diagnosis
• Traumatic brain injury: communication features, with particular reference to discourse, relationship between communication difficulties and other sequelae; assessment and clinical management
AGEING AND THE DEMENTIAS:
Communication decline and disorder, the role of the speech and language therapist in assessment and management.
THE RIGHT HEMISPHERE:
Language lateralization, communication and associated functions of the right hemisphere,
communication features in right brain damage with particular reference to discourse; assessment and clinical management
ACQUIRED ALEXIA AND AGRAPHIA:
Factors contributing to reading and writing disorders in neurological damage, functional and cognitive neuropsychological approaches to theory, assessment and treatment.
