An Analysis of Aphasic Naming Errors as an Indicator of Improved Linguistic Processing Following Phonomotor Treatment
Publication: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Volume 22, Number 2
Pages S240-S249
Abstract
Purpose
The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of phonomotor treatment on the types of errors produced during a confrontation naming task for people with aphasia (PWA).
Method
Ten PWA received 60 hr of phonomotor treatment across 6 weeks. Confrontation naming abilities were measured before and after treatment, and responses were coded as correct or incorrect. Incorrect responses were coded for error type. Paired t tests comparing pre-, post- and 3 months posttreatment naming accuracy and error type were performed.
Results
Group data showed that naming accuracy on trained items improved significantly immediately post treatment, and gains were maintained 3 months later. Naming accuracy on untrained items did not show significant improvement immediately post treatment or 3 months later. Results of error type analysis were not significant. However, a decrease in omission errors and an increase in mixed errors were noted immediately post treatment for naming of untrained items.
Conclusion
Results suggest that intensive phonomotor treatment improved lexical-retrieval abilities and may have triggered a shift in linguistic processing, as indicated by a decrease in omission errors on trained items and an increase in mixed errors on untrained items.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
References
Dell, G. S. (1986). A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production. Psychological Review, 93((3)) 293–321 doi:10.1037//0033-295X.93.3.283
Dell, G. S., Lawler, E. N., Harris, H. D., & Gordon, J. K. (2004). Models of errors of omission in aphasic naming. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21((2/3/4)) 125–145 doi:10.1080/02643290342000320
Dell, G. S., Schwartz, M. F., Martin, N., Saffran, E. M., & Gagnon, D. A. (1997). Lexical access in aphasic and nonaphasic speakers. Psychological Review, 104((4)) 801–838 doi:10.1037/0033-295X.104.4.801
Kaplan, E., Goodglass, H., Weintraub, S., & Segal, O. (1983). Boston Naming Test. Philadelphia, PA: Lea and Febiger.
Kendall, D., Brookshire, L., Oelke, M., & Nadeau, S. 2012 June Intensive phonomotor rehabilitation of anomia in seventeen individuals with aphasia Paper presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA.
Kendall, D., Conway, T., Rosenbek, J., & Gonzalez Rothi, L. (2003). Phonological rehabilitation of acquired phonologic alexia. Aphasiology, 17((11)) 1073–1095 doi:10.1080/02687030344000355
Kendall, D. K., del Toro, C. M., Nadeau, S., Johnson, J., Rosenbek, J., & Velozo, C. 2010 June The development of a standardized assessment of phonology in aphasia. Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Isle of Palms, South Carolina
Kendall, D., Rodriguez, A., Rosenbek, J., Conway, T., & Gonzalez Rothi, L. (2006). The influence of intensive phonomotor rehabilitation of apraxia of speech. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 43((3)) 409–418 doi:10.1682/JRRD.2005.11.0175
Kendall, D. L., Rosenbek, J., Heilman, K., Conway, T., Klenberg, K., Gonzalez Rothi, L. J., & Nadeau, S. (2008). Phoneme-based rehabilitation of anomia in aphasia. Brain and Language, 105((1)) 1–17 doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.007
Kendall, D., Rosenbek, J., Nadeau, S., Heilman, K., Conway, T., Klenberg, K., & Gonzalez Rothi, L. J. 2006 May Phonologic rehabilitation of anomia in aphasia Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Ghent, Belgium
Kertesz, A. (1982). The Western Aphasia Battery. New York, NY: The Psychological Corporation.
Kiran, S., & Thompson, C. K. (2003). Effect of typicality on online category verification of animate category examplars in aphasia. Brain and Language, 85((3)) 441–450 doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00064-6
Martin, N. (2011). Disorders of word production. In Papathanasiou, I., Coppens, P., & Potagas, C., Aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders (pp. 131–155). Burlington, MA: Jones & Barlett Learning.
Nadeau, S. E. (2001). Phonology: A review and proposals from a connectionist perspective. Brain and Language, 79((3)) 511–579 doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2566
Nadeau, S. E. (2012). The neural architecture of grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Plaut, D. C. (1996). Relearning after damage in connectionists networks: Toward a theory of rehabilitation. Brain and Language, 52((1)) 25–82 doi:10.1006/brln.1996.0004
Schwartz, M. F., & Brecher, A. (2000). A model-driven analysis of severity, response characteristics, and partial recovery in aphasics' picture naming. Brain and Language, 73, 62–91.
Schwartz, M. F., Dell, G. S., Martin, N., Gahl, S., & Sobel, P. (2006). A case-series test of the interactive two-step model of lexical access: Evidence from picture naming. Journal of Memory and Language, 54((2)) 228–264 doi:10.1016/j.jml.2005.10.001
Storkel, H. L., Armbruster, J., & Hogan, T. P. (2006). Differentiating phonotactic probability and neighborhood density in adult word learning. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49((6)) 1175–1192 doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2006/085)
Thompson, C. K., & Shapiro, L. P. (2007). Complexity in treatment of syntactic deficits. Journal of American Speech-Language Pathology, 16, 30–42 doi:10.1044/1058-0360(2007/005)
Vitevitch, M. S., & Luce, P. A. (1999). Probabilistic phonotactics and neighborhood activation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 40((3)) 374–408 doi:10.1006/jmla.1998.2618
Vitevitch, M. S., & Luce, P. A. (2004). A web-based interface to calculate phonotactic probability for words and nonwords in English. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36((3)) 481–487 doi:10.3758/BF03195594
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
History
- Received: Jul 25, 2012
- Accepted: Oct 16, 2012
- Published in issue: May 1, 2013
Keywords
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Article Metrics
View all metricsCitations
Download article citation data for:
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.
For more information or tips please see 'Downloading to a citation manager' in the Help menu.
Citing Literature
- Fahime Yousefzade, Asefeh Memarian, Alireza Rahimi, Leila Ghasisin, The efficacy of confrontational naming treatments for aphasia: a meta-analysis, Aphasiology, 10.1080/02687038.2024.2393448, (1-26), (2024).
- Audra W. Yetter, A Psycholinguistic Approach to the Management of Aphasia in a Case of Left Parietal Stroke, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 10.1044/2024_PERSP-24-00007, 10, 2, (358-375), (2024).
- Yuki Ishii, Approaches to Word-Finding Difficulties by Using Language Networks言葉のネットワークを活用した喚語障害へのアプローチ, The Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, 10.5112/jjlp.65.217, 65, 4, (217-223), (2024).
- Leora R. Cherney, Julia Carpenter, Behavioral interventions for poststroke aphasia, Aphasia, 10.1016/B978-0-12-823384-9.00010-4, (197-220), (2022).
- Maya Menahemi-Falkov, Caterina Breitenstein, John E. Pierce, Anne J. Hill, Robyn O'Halloran, Miranda L. Rose, A systematic review of maintenance following intensive therapy programs in chronic post-stroke aphasia: importance of individual response analysis, Disability and Rehabilitation, 10.1080/09638288.2021.1955303, 44, 20, (5811-5826), (2021).
- Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Marianne Casilio, William D. Hula, Alexander Swiderski, Computer Adaptive Testing for the Assessment of Anomia Severity, Seminars in Speech and Language, 10.1055/s-0041-1727252, 42, 03, (180-191), (2021).
- Tijana Simic, Craig Chambers, Tali Bitan, Steven Stewart, Devora Goldberg, Laura Laird, Carol Leonard, Elizabeth Rochon, Mechanisms underlying anomia treatment outcomes, Journal of Communication Disorders, 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2020.106048, 88, (106048), (2020).
- Ran Li, Wen Li, Swathi Kiran, Effect of Mandarin Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia: A single-case experimental design, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 10.1080/09602011.2020.1773278, 31, 8, (1224-1253), (2020).
- Irene Minkina, JoAnn P. Silkes, Lauren Bislick, Elizabeth Brookshire Madden, Victoria Lai, Rebecca Hunting Pompon, Janaki Torrence, Reva M. Zimmerman, Diane L. Kendall, The Influence of Phonomotor Treatment on Word Retrieval: Insights From Naming Errors, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-19-0014, 62, 11, (4080-4104), (2019).
- Rebecca Hunting Pompon, Lauren Bislick, Kristen Elliott, Elizabeth Brookshire Madden, Irene Minkina, Megan Oelke, Diane Kendall, Influence of Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Variables on Generalization and Maintenance Following Phonomotor Treatment for Aphasia, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 10.1044/2017_AJSLP-16-0175, 26, 4, (1092-1104), (2018).
View Options
Sign In Options
ASHA member? If so, log in with your ASHA website credentials for full access.
Member Login