Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-342) and indexes.

. INTRODUCTION TO ACQUIRED LANGUAGE DISORDERS



Diagnosing aphasia

Describing aphasia

Explaining aphasia

Treating aphasia



2. CAUSES OF THE APHASIAS



Stroke

Ischemic stroke

Hemorrhage

Tumor

Focal cortical atrophy

Clinical neurological examination

Clinical brain imaging

Localization and dissociation

Clinical syndromes of aphasia

Exceptional aphasias

Summary and conclusions



3. CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS



The first visit

Diagnostic decisions

Standard testing

Psychometric constraints: The PICA

Diagnosing syndromes: The Boston Exam

Numerical classification: The WAB

Diagnosing modular impairment: PALPA

Brief tests and bedside screening

Supplemental tests

Notes on interpretation

Martin Exeter's initial report

Summary and conclusions



4. INVESTIGATING APHASIA IN GENERAL



Basic research in clinical aphasiology

Word processing

Sentence comprehension

Explaining sentence comprehension deficit

Object naming

Productive word-finding

Reading words

Aphasia in bilingual individuals

Summary and conclusions



5. INVESTIGATING SYMPTOMS AND SYNDROMES



Agrammatism

Asyntactic comprehension

Anomic aphasia

Conduction aphasia

Wernicke's aphasia

Universal aphasia

Martin Exeter's aphasia

Summary and conclusions



6. DISCOURSE AND COMMUNICATION



Pragmatic language

Discourse and text

Discourse comprehension with aphasia

Aphasic discourse production

Conversation

Nonverbal modalities

Overall functional status

Assessment of functional communication

Assessing life participation

Martin Exeter's functional skills

Summary and conclusions



7. RECOVERY AND PROGNOSIS



Stroke and functional outcomes

Measuring recovery of language

Approaches to prognosis

Type of stroke

Severity of impairment

Type of impairment

Other factors

Making the targeted prognosis

Bilingual recovery

Explaining recovery

Martin Exeter's recovery

Summary and conclusions



8. PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE RESTORATION



Cognitive stimulation

Programmed stimulation

Measurement and generalization

Word-finding

Computer-assisted treatment

Group treatment

Efficacy of standard aphasia treatment

Medical treatments

Health care topics

Notes from the clinic

Summary and conclusions



9. TARGETING SPECIFIC DISORDERS



Studying individual cases

Agrammatic production: Empirical treatments

Agrammatic production: Theory-driven treatments

Asyntactic comprehension

Wernicke's aphasia

Conduction aphasia

Anomic or mild aphasia

Reading impairments

Summary and conclusion



10. FUNCTIONAL THERAPEUTICS



Philosophy: The clinical-functional gap

Functional stimulation

Compensatory behaviors

Interactive therapies

Life participation

The challenge of severe or global aphasia

Psychosocial adjustment

Documenting functional outcome

Martin's conclusion

Summary and conclusions





11. RIGHT HEMISPHERE DISORDERS



Clinical neuropsychology

Awareness of deficits

Left neglect and reading

Visuospatial orientation

Constructional skills

Problems with sound

Emotion and prosody

Speaker meaning

Discourse

What is RHD syndrome?

Clinical assessment

Treatment

Recovery and outcomes

Summary and conclusions



12. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY



Head trauma

The trauma unit

Neuropsychological assessment

Attention

Memory

Executive functions

Personality and behavior

Insight (awareness)

Language

Pragmatics and discourse

Cognitive rehabilitation

Recovery and outcomes

Summary and conclusions



13. DEMENTIAS



Diagnosis and assessment of dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Other causes of dementia

Dementia of Alzheimer's type

Language with Alzheimer's disease

Medical treatments

Communicative assessment

Cognitive-communicative interventions

Summary and conclusions





References.