Abstract |
This pilot study explored the feasibility of in-home teletreatment for patients with post- stroke anomia. Three participants over 65 years of age suffering from post- stroke anomia were treated in this pre/post-intervention case study. They received 12 speech therapy teletreatments (two sessions/week for 6 weeks) aimed at improving confrontation naming skills. Half of the failed items from a set of 120 preselected stimuli were trained during treatment (Block A-trained stimuli) while the other half served as controls (Block B-untrained stimuli). Variables measured were: 1) efficacy of treatment (performance on Block-A vs. Block B Stimuli), and 2) participants' satisfaction with teletreatment (using a French adaptation of the Telemedicine satisfaction questionnaire). All participants showed a clinically relevant improvement on confrontation naming of trained items and less improvement for untrained items. The researchers also obtained high satisfaction scores on the questionnaire (above 57/60). This pilot study supports the feasibility of speech therapy teletreatments applied to neurological language disorders.
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Authors | Lambert Dechêne, Michel Tousignant, Patrick Boissy, Joël Macoir, Serge Héroux, Mathieu Hamel, Simon Brière, Catherine Pagé |
Journal | International journal of telerehabilitation
(Int J Telerehabil)
Vol. 3
Issue 2
Pg. 3-10
( 2011)
ISSN: 1945-2020 [Print] United States |
PMID | 25945183
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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