Objective Recent evidence has fuelled the debate on the role of massed practice in the rehabilitation of chronic post-stroke aphasia. Here, we further determined the optimal daily dosage and total ...

Aphasia is a multimodal language disorder that affects individuals across all language cultures, disrupting speaking, listening, reading, writing, and gestural communication. Although aphasia is ...

The reliability and validity of an intervention can be improved by checking treatment fidelity (TF). TF methods identify core components of an intervention, check their presence (or absence) and ...

Aphasia is a language disorder that affects communication. It results from brain damage, often after a stroke. Treatment aims to restore a person’s language and communication abilities as much as ...

This chapter examines state-of-the-art methods for coding, analyzing, and interpreting discourse-level language data from children and adults with language disorders using the data, tools, and methods ...

Cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) refers to a group of therapies that aim to restore cognitive function after a brain injury. CRT is not a specific type of treatment. Rather, it refers to a group ...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a form of noninvasive brain stimulation originally studied for its effect on motor limb physiology, 1 has been investigated for its use in the treatment ...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation originally studied for its effect on motor limb physiology 1, has been investigated for its use in the ...

Background and Purpose— NIH Stroke Scale certification is required for participation in modern stroke clinical trials and as part of good clinical care in stroke centers. The existing training and ...