ArticleBrain communications2026
Communication makes intensive language therapy more efficient: a randomized controlled trial in chronic post-stroke aphasia.
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Speech-language therapy is effective in chronic post-stroke aphasia if it is delivered in an intensive fashion. The study investigated whether intensive communicative therapy by practicing everyday language use (e.g. requesting objects and proposing actions) leads to better outcomes than equally intensive conventional treatment (e.g. picture naming). A randomized controlled trial compared intensive conventional speech-language therapy to a social-communicative treatment, called Intensive Language Action Therapy, a further development of Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy. Forty-four chronic post-stroke aphasia patients randomized to one of these treatments received 2 weeks, 5 days/week, for 2.5 h/day of therapy. Primary outcome measure was an established clinical language battery. To address any changes in mood, patients' depressive symptoms were assessed using Beck's Depression Inventory. A significant interaction [
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