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ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Variables and Mechanisms Affecting Response to Language Treatment in Multilingual People with Aphasia.

Mira Goral, Aviva Lerman

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Translanguaging in conversations for people with aphasia living in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa.The South African journal of communication disorders = Die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Kommunikasieafwykings · 2025
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  9. Aphasia in Multilingual Patients.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mira GoralSpeech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Graduate Center & Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Aviva LermanProgram of Communication Disorders, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem 9101001, Israel.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDespite substantial literature exploring language treatment effects in multilingual people with aphasia (PWA), inconsistent results reported across studies make it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

methodsWe highlight and illustrate variables that have been implicated in affecting cross-language treatment effects in multilingual PWA. MAIN CONTRIBUTION: We argue that opposing effects of activation and inhibition across languages, influenced by pertinent variables, such as age of language acquisition, patterns of language use, and treatment-related factors, contribute to the complex picture that has emerged from current studies of treatment in multilingual PWA. We propose a new integrated model-Treatment Effects in Aphasia in Multilingual people (the TEAM model)-to capture this complexity.

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cross-language generalizationlanguage activationlanguage inhibitionlanguage treatmentstroke aphasia

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PMID32971777
PMCPMC7551033

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