Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal
مجله علوم اعصاب پایه و بالینی
BCN
Medical Sciences
http://bcn.iums.ac.ir
137
journal137
2008-126X
2228-7442
10.32598/bcn
en
jalali
1396
12
1
gregorian
2018
3
1
0
Accepted Articles
online
1
fulltext
en
The Effects of the Persian Writing Treatment Protocol on Communication Skills in People with Aphasia following Stroke
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Original
Original
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Introduction:</b> Aphasia is one of the most severe post-stroke deficits affecting speech, comprehension, reading, and writing modalities. In some patients, speech is severely impaired, so choosing an alternative or complementary approach for communication seems necessary. Writing has the closest characteristics to verbal language. So, it can be a substitute or facilitate speech, and improve the quality of communication. Therefore, this study aimed to design a writing treatment protocol for Persian stroke patients and investigate its effect on improving communication skills.</span><br>
<span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Method</b>: first, the writing treatment protocol was designed by considering the characteristics of Persian written language, and its validity was determined by an expert panel, then a single subject study with ABA design was performed on 6 stroke patients suffering from chronic aphasia, non-fluent with limited speech. After the baseline phase, treatment sessions using the developed protocol were conducted 1 hour twice a week for 10 sessions. Finally, a follow-up was performed to evaluate the stability of the treatment.</span><br>
<span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Results</b>: The results showed that patients’ improvement was limited to trained words which were treated using the developed protocol, and no generalization was observed to untrained words. The effect size indices (improvement rate difference, percentage of non-overlapping data, and percentage of overlapping data) showed the acceptable effect of treatment, its effectiveness, and the very high effect of writing therapy in all patients.</span><br>
<span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><b>Conclusion</b>: Writing treatment using the developed Persian protocol can improve writing performance as well as patients’ communication. An important outcome of this study is the introduction of a writing treatment approach as a new intervention for Persian patients with limited speech.</span></span></span></span></div>
Strokes, Acquired aphasia, Treatment protocol, Writing
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http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1307-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1
Seyede Zohre
Mousavi
z.mousavi68@gmail.com
13700319475328460043878
13700319475328460043878
No
Department of Speech and Language Pathology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Nahid
Jalilevand
jalilevand.n@iums.ac.ir
13700319475328460043879
13700319475328460043879
Yes
Department of Speech and Language Pathology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hassan
Ashayeri
ashayeri.neuroscientist@yahoo.com
13700319475328460043880
13700319475328460043880
No
School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Jamileh
Abolghasemi
Abolghasemi.j@iums.ac.ir
13700319475328460043881
13700319475328460043881
No
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.