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Treatment of Writing in Aphasia

When an individual has aphasia, verbal output is often no longer sufficient for communication. Because of this, other modalities of communication are often explored. "Speech" therapy for aphasic patients often does not include speech activities at all, but rather focuses on a modality with which they will experience more success, and which will facilitate their communication in functional situations. Promoting Aphasic Communicative Effectiveness (PACE) is a multi-modality approach to therapy that encourages aphasics to use any means available to express themselves. One communication modality that can be included in this therapy approach is writing.
Writing can pose some problems for aphasics, however. Often following a left hemisphere stroke, a patient is forced to write with the non-dominant left hand due to right sided weakness or paralysis. For this reason, aphasic patients are sometimes reluctant to try writing as a form of......

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