Patient two is a fifty-eight year old male who suffered a left hemisphere cerebral vascular accident (CVA) in August of 2005. He has diagnoses of nonfluent Broca’s aphasia and mild-moderate apraxia. According to his most recent diagnostic, the client demonstrates
Patient two is a fifty-eight year old male who suffered a left hemisphere cerebral vascular accident (CVA) in August of 2005. He has diagnoses of nonfluent Broca’s aphasia and mild-moderate apraxia. According to his most recent diagnostic, the client demonstrates moderately impaired expressive language abilities, and mildly impaired receptive language skills. In conversation, the client struggled to find words, and demonstrated agrammatic speech. This patient had difficulty …show more content…
When thinking about the needs of the clients, the clinical question posed was, “Does PACE treatment help to improve functional communication skills in aphasic patients? (Is PACE treatment more effective than CILT in treating aphasic clients?)”. P.A.C.E. and C.I.L.T. are extremely different approaches used when treating patients with aphasia. P.A.C.E. intervention (Promoting Aphasics’ Communication Effectiveness) is an intervention method for aphasic clients designed to improve conversational skills through the use of many modalities of communication. This form of therapy promotes active participation in the social world through role-play scenarios within the therapy setting. The main goal of this treatment is for the skills learned and practiced to become generalized across various social situations. (Hinckley, 2009) The comparative intervention studied is C.I.L.T. C.I.L.T. (Constraint Induced Language Therapy) is an intensive treatment approach that is designed to increase verbal output. This treatment discourages the use of compensatory communication strategies including the use of gestures and writing (Rose, 2013). The outcome measure selected was to increase word finding and functional
Patient two is a fifty-eight year old male who suffered a left hemisphere cerebral vascular accident (CVA) in August of 2005. He has diagnoses of nonfluent Broca’s aphasia and mild-moderate apraxia. According to his most recent diagnostic, the client demonstrates moderately impaired expressive language abilities, and mildly impaired receptive language skills. In conversation, the client struggled to find words, and demonstrated agrammatic speech. This patient had difficulty …show more content…
When thinking about the needs of the clients, the clinical question posed was, “Does PACE treatment help to improve functional communication skills in aphasic patients? (Is PACE treatment more effective than CILT in treating aphasic clients?)”. P.A.C.E. and C.I.L.T. are extremely different approaches used when treating patients with aphasia. P.A.C.E. intervention (Promoting Aphasics’ Communication Effectiveness) is an intervention method for aphasic clients designed to improve conversational skills through the use of many modalities of communication. This form of therapy promotes active participation in the social world through role-play scenarios within the therapy setting. The main goal of this treatment is for the skills learned and practiced to become generalized across various social situations. (Hinckley, 2009) The comparative intervention studied is C.I.L.T. C.I.L.T. (Constraint Induced Language Therapy) is an intensive treatment approach that is designed to increase verbal output. This treatment discourages the use of compensatory communication strategies including the use of gestures and writing (Rose, 2013). The outcome measure selected was to increase word finding and functional