Effects of Phonomotor Treatment on the Reading Abilities of Individuals with Aphasia and Phonological Alexia

Brookshire, Carmel Elizabeth and Hunting Pompon, Rebecca and Oelke, Megan and Kendall, Diane (2013) Effects of Phonomotor Treatment on the Reading Abilities of Individuals with Aphasia and Phonological Alexia. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

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Abstract

A left hemisphere stroke often results in aphasia characterized by impaired reading (Cherney, 2004; Webb & Love, 1983) and phonological processing abilities (Blumstein, Baker, & Goodglass, 1977; den Ouden & Bastiaanse, 2005). Research has shown that treatment focused at the level of the phoneme improves reading abilities in persons with aphasia (PWA) and phonological alexia (Conway et al., 1998; Kendall et al., 1998; Kendall et al., 2003). These findings are theoretically supported by a connectionist model of phonology (Nadeau, 2001), and a multimodal model of phonological processing and reading (Alexander & Slinger, 2004).

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