SynthesisArchives of physical medicine and rehabilitation2019
Benchmarks of Significant Change After Aphasia Rehabilitation.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Predictors of Poststroke Aphasia Recovery: A Systematic Review-Informed Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis.Stroke · 2021Pooled it
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- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined With Multimodality Aphasia Therapy for Chronic Poststroke Aphasia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Neurology · 2025Trial
- Effect of Acupuncture vs Sham Acupuncture on Patients With Poststroke Motor Aphasia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Results of the COMPARE trial of Constraint-induced or Multimodality Aphasia Therapy compared with usual care in chronic post-stroke aphasia.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2022Trial
- A randomized control trial of intensive aphasia therapy after acute stroke: The Very Early Rehabilitation for SpEech (VERSE) study.International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society · 2021Trial
- Charting the Course of Aphasia Recovery: Factors, Trajectories, and Outcomes.Annual review of linguistics · 2025Article
- Integrated UPper limb and Language Impairment and Functional Training (UPLIFT) after stroke: study protocol for an umbrella Bayesian Optimal Phase IIa clinical trial.BMJ neurology open · 2025Article
- What Impacts What: Clinicians' Perspectives of Causality in Aphasia Rehabilitation.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2024Article
- A computer-aid speech rehabilitation system with mirrored video generating.Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine · 2024Article
- Treatment-Induced Recovery Patterns Between Nouns and Verbs in Mandarin-English Bilingual Adults With Aphasia.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023Article
- Subacute aphasia recovery is associated with resting-state connectivity within and beyond the language network.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2023Article
- Review
- The Severity-Calibrated Aphasia Naming Test.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2022Article
- Assessment of language impairment and function.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2022Review
- Capturing Neuroplastic Changes after iTBS in Patients with Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Pilot fMRI Study.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Effect of Mandarin Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) in Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia: A single-case experimental design.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Predicting language recovery in post-stroke aphasia using behavior and functional MRI.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Review
- Extended fMRI-Guided Anodal and Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Targeting Perilesional Areas in Post-Stroke Aphasia: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo establish benchmarks of significant change for aphasia rehabilitation outcome measures (ie, Western Aphasia Battery-Aphasia Quotient [WAB-AQ], Communicative Effectiveness Index [CETI], Boston Naming Test [BNT]) and assess if those benchmarks significantly differ across subgroups (ie, time post onset, dose frequency, treatment type). DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive literature search of 12 databases, reference lists of previous reviews, and evidence-based practice materials was conducted. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental studies, single-subject design, and case studies that used a standardized outcome measure to assess change were included. Titles and full-text articles were screened using a dual review process. Seventy-eight studies met criteria for inclusion. DATA EXTRACTION: Data were extracted independently, and 25% of extractions were checked for reliability. All included studies were assigned quality indicator ratings and an evidence level. DATA SYNTHESIS: Random-effects meta-analyses were conducted separately for each study design group (ie, within-/between-group comparisons). For within-group designs, the summary effect size after aphasia rehabilitation was 5.03 points (95% confidence interval, 3.95-6.10, P<.001) on the WAB-AQ, 10.37 points (6.08-14.66, P<.001) on the CETI, and 3.30 points (2.43-4.18, P<.001) on the BNT. For between-group designs, the summary effect size was 5.05 points (1.64-8.46, P=.004) on the WAB-AQ and 0.55 points (-1.33 to 2.43, P=.564) on the BNT, the latter of which was not significant. Subgroup analyses for the within-group designs showed no significant differences in the summary effect size as a function of dose frequency or treatment type.
conclusionsThis study established benchmarks of significant change on 3 standardized outcome measures used in aphasia rehabilitation.
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