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BACKGROUND: Practice-based evidence can inform and support clinical decision making. Case-report series about the implementation of programs in real-world clinical settings may contribute to verifying the effectiveness of interventions for treating PPA in specific contexts, as well as illustrating challenges that need to be overcome. OBJECTIVE: To describe and provide practice-based evidence on the effectiveness of four cognitive rehabilitation programs designed for individuals with PPA and directed to speech and language impairments, which were implemented in a specialized outpatient clinic. METHODS: Multiple single-case study. Eighteen individuals with different subtypes of PPA were each assigned to one out of four training programs based on comprehensive speech and language assessments. The treatments targeted naming deficits, sentence production, speech apraxia, and phonological deficits. Pre- and post-treatment assessments were undertaken to compare trained and untrained items. Gains were generalized to a different task in the first two types of intervention (naming and sentence production). A follow-up assessment was conducted 1-8 months after treatment among 7 participants. RESULTS: All individuals presented better performance in the trained items at the post-test for each rehabilitation program accomplished, demonstrating that learning of the trained strategies was achieved during the active phase of treatment. For 13 individuals, statistical significance was reached; while for five, the results were maintained. Results about untrained items, generalization to other tasks, and follow-up assessments are presented. CONCLUSIONS: The positive results found in our sample bring some practice-based evidence for the benefits of speech and language treatment strategies for clinical management of individuals with PPA.
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The non-fluent and agrammatic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia (NFPPA) is characterized by reduced verbal production with deficits in building grammatically correct sentences, involving dysfunctions in syntactic and morphological levels of language. There are a growing number of studies about non-pharmacological alternatives focusingon the rehabilitation of functional aspects or specific cognitive impairments of each variant of PPA. This study reports a shortterm treatment administered to a patient with NFPPA focusing on the production of sentences. The patient had significant reduction in verbal fluency, use of keywords, phrasal and grammatical simplifying as well as anomia. Using the method of errorless learning, six sessions were structured to stimulate the formation of sentences in the present and past with the cloze technique. The patient had improvement restricted to the strategy, with 100% accuracy on the trained phrases and generalization to untrained similar syntactic structure after training. These results persisted one month after the treatment.
A variante não fluente e agramática da Afasia Progressiva Primária (APPNF) caracteriza-se por redução da produção verbal com falhas para construir sentenças gramaticalmente corretas, envolvendo disfunções nos níveis sintático e morfológico da linguagem. É crescente o número de pesquisas sobre alternativas não farmacológicas enfocando areabilitação de aspectos funcionais ou comprometimentos cognitivos específicos de cada variante das APP. Relatar um tratamento de curta-duração administrado a um paciente com APPNF enfocando a produção de sentenças. O paciente apresentava redução importante da fluência verbal, uso de palavras-chave, simplificação frasal e gramatical, além deanomia. Utilizando o método de aprendizado sem erros, foram estruturadas seis sessões para estimular a formação de frases no presente e no passado com a técnica de cloze. O paciente apresentou melhora restrita à estratégia, com 100% de acerto nas frases treinadas e generalização para as não-treinadas de estrutura sintática semelhante após o treinamento.Os resultados foram mantidos um mês após o tratamento.
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Humanos , Reabilitação , Terapêutica , Afasia Primária Progressiva , FonoaudiologiaRESUMO
The non-fluent and agrammatic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia (NFPPA) is characterized by reduced verbal production with deficits in building grammatically correct sentences, involving dysfunctions in syntactic and morphological levels of language. There are a growing number of studies about non-pharmacological alternatives focusing on the rehabilitation of functional aspects or specific cognitive impairments of each variant of PPA. This study reports a short-term treatment administered to a patient with NFPPA focusing on the production of sentences. The patient had significant reduction in verbal fluency, use of keywords, phrasal and grammatical simplifying as well as anomia. Using the method of errorless learning, six sessions were structured to stimulate the formation of sentences in the present and past with the cloze technique. The patient had improvement restricted to the strategy, with 100% accuracy on the trained phrases and generalization to untrained similar syntactic structure after training. These results persisted one month after the treatment.
A variante não fluente e agramática da Afasia Progressiva Primária (APPNF) caracteriza-se por redução da produção verbal com falhas para construir sentenças gramaticalmente corretas, envolvendo disfunções nos níveis sintático e morfológico da linguagem. É crescente o número de pesquisas sobre alternativas não farmacológicas enfocando a reabilitação de aspectos funcionais ou comprometimentos cognitivos específicos de cada variante das APP. Relatar um tratamento de curta-duração administrado a um paciente com APPNF enfocando a produção de sentenças. O paciente apresentava redução importante da fluência verbal, uso de palavras-chave, simplificação frasal e gramatical, além de anomia. Utilizando o método de aprendizado sem erros, foram estruturadas seis sessões para estimular a formação de frases no presente e no passado com a técnica de cloze. O paciente apresentou melhora restrita à estratégia, com 100% de acerto nas frases treinadas e generalização para as não-treinadas de estrutura sintática semelhante após o treinamento. Os resultados foram mantidos um mês após o tratamento.
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BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by memory loss and cognitive impairment. Phonological, syntactic, semantic and discursive aspects of language may also be affected. Analysis of micro- and macrolinguistic abilities of discourse may assist in diagnosing AD. The aim of this study was to identify changes in the discourse (lexical errors and syntactic index) of AD patients. METHODS: 121 elderly subjects narrated a story based on a seven-figure picture description. RESULTS: Patients with AD presented more word-finding difficulties, revisions and repetitions, and the syntactic index was lower than controls. CONCLUSION: Performance in microlinguistics at the lexical and syntactic levels was lower than expected in participants with AD.