Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Case Study

Introduction Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects many adults and families. Aphasia occurs as a result of damage to the language-specific areas of the brain (ASHA, 2014). Individuals with aphasia may experience difficulties with oral language, receptive language, memory, attention writing, and reading. There are a myriad of approaches designed for the treatment of aphasia. Two treatment approaches, Promoting Aphasics Communicative Effectiveness (P.A.C.E.) and Constraint Induced Language Therapy (C.I.L.T.), and their efficacy in regard to available evidence will be discussed below. Introduction to Patient Two patients who suffered a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) will be discussed for the purpose of this paper. Clinicians who worked closely with these patients aimed to implement a therapy strategy with a functional approach to communication in order to promote effective communication across multiple social situations. The commonalities that exist between these patients include: their age, …show more content…
and C.I.L.T., was obtained via a variety of search engines and databases. The SUNY New Paltz Sojourner Truth Library online database yielded several articles, specifically through the CommDisDome research database. Other databases that were accessed for the purpose of finding scholarly, peer reviewed articles included: PubMed Medline, JSLHR, ASHA, EBSCOhost, Google scholar, and speechbite. General search terms that were key throughout the search process included: P.A.C.E, C.I.L.T., treatment, therapy, aphasia, “controlled trial”, random, and systematic. Once a systematic review for the C.I.L.T. approach was obtained via Cherney, Patterson, Raymer, Frymark, and Schooling (2008), many sources were extrapolated from the references section in order to provide information and/or support for the alternative therapy. The original searches yielded 24 articles. Upon further investigation of the