The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment for language and calculation disorders and for speech apraxia in vascular subjects. Only therapeutic methods that could be qualified as neuropsychological were taken into account. For language disorders, we searched the pertinent literature published from 1950 to August 31, 2007 by means of electronic data banks and we took into consideration the Cochrane review, and papers in Cicerone et al. and Cappa et al. systematic reviews. For acalculia we examined the literature from 1980 by carrying out research on electronic data banks; for speech apraxia, studies emerged from a search of PUBMED. Aphasia therapy has been clearly demonstrated efficacious in groups of subjects if sufficiently prolonged/intensive. Treatment for specific disorders (words and sentences processing, reading, writing) studied in series of single patients, though always efficacious, reaches a lower level of recommendation due to the lack of RCT. Only a few studies tackled the problem of efficacy in case of speech apraxia and calculation disorders. Results are positive but data are scanty. Efficacy of aphasia therapy seems well established in group of subjects and well-promising for speech apraxia and calculation disorders. It is suggested, however, that the term "aphasia" covers widely different impairments and that RCT are not the best instrument to evaluate efficacy; the importance of chronicity is underlined.

Basso, A., Cattaneo, S., Girelli, L., Luzzatti, C., Miozzo, A., Modena, ., et al. (2011). Treatment efficacy of language and calculation disorders and speech apraxia: a review of the literature. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE, 47(1), 101-121.

Treatment efficacy of language and calculation disorders and speech apraxia: a review of the literature

GIRELLI, LUISA;LUZZATTI, CLAUDIO GIUSEPPE;
2011

Abstract

The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of the treatment for language and calculation disorders and for speech apraxia in vascular subjects. Only therapeutic methods that could be qualified as neuropsychological were taken into account. For language disorders, we searched the pertinent literature published from 1950 to August 31, 2007 by means of electronic data banks and we took into consideration the Cochrane review, and papers in Cicerone et al. and Cappa et al. systematic reviews. For acalculia we examined the literature from 1980 by carrying out research on electronic data banks; for speech apraxia, studies emerged from a search of PUBMED. Aphasia therapy has been clearly demonstrated efficacious in groups of subjects if sufficiently prolonged/intensive. Treatment for specific disorders (words and sentences processing, reading, writing) studied in series of single patients, though always efficacious, reaches a lower level of recommendation due to the lack of RCT. Only a few studies tackled the problem of efficacy in case of speech apraxia and calculation disorders. Results are positive but data are scanty. Efficacy of aphasia therapy seems well established in group of subjects and well-promising for speech apraxia and calculation disorders. It is suggested, however, that the term "aphasia" covers widely different impairments and that RCT are not the best instrument to evaluate efficacy; the importance of chronicity is underlined.
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aphasia; apraxia of speech; dyslexia; dysgraphia; acalculia; rehabilitation
English
2011
47
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101
121
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Basso, A., Cattaneo, S., Girelli, L., Luzzatti, C., Miozzo, A., Modena, ., et al. (2011). Treatment efficacy of language and calculation disorders and speech apraxia: a review of the literature. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE, 47(1), 101-121.
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