The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in comprehension and expression of the Spanish personal `a' for Spanish-speakers with aphasia following a processing instruction (PI) protocol. Three Spanish/English bilingual adults with aphasia participated in a PI treatment that focused on teaching the personal `a' within subject-verb-object, object-verb-subject, and verb-object-subject sentences. All three participants demonstrated gains in comprehension during referential treatment tasks. Gains in expression of the personal `a' were not observed in any of the participants. In conclusion, PI shows promise for increasing syntactic comprehension in people with aphasia, and more research is needed into successful modifications of PI for use with populations with aphasia.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-05042011-102752 |
| Date | 04 May 2011 |
| Creators | Atkins, Jenny Leigh |
| Contributors | Maria L Muñoz |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/octet-stream |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05042011-102752/ |
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