There are dozens of ways that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) treat aphasia. The type of treatment a person receives is generally determined by the type of aphasia he or she has, as well as the severity of it. However, it can also be guided by the need of individual patients and their families as it relates to activities of daily living. Visit the articles below to learn about each aphasia treatment option.
Common Aphasia Treatments
- AAC Device Therapy
- Constraint-Induced Language Therapy
- Conversational Coaching for Aphasia
- Gestural Faciliation of Naming (GES)
- Life Participation Approach to Aphasia
- Melodic Intonation Therapy
- Multiple Oral Reading (MOR)
- Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA)
- PACE Therapy
- Reciprocal Scaffolding Treatment (RST)
- Response Elaboration Training (RET)
- Script Training
- Semantic Feature Analysis Treatment
- Sentence Production Program for Aphasia
- Supported Communication Intervention (SCI)
- Supported Reading Comprehension
- Treatment of Underlying Forms (UTF)
- Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST)
- Visual Action Therapy
- Word Retrieval Cuing Strategies
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