A Systematically Conducted Scoping Review of the Evidence and Fidelity of Treatments for Verb Deficits in Aphasia: Verb-in-Isolation Treatments
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Hickin, J., Cruice, M., et al. (2020).
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29, 530-559.
This scoping review investigates the effects of verb-in-isolation treatments on verb production, functional communication, and discourse outcomes in adults with aphasia.
Worshipful Company of Saddlers (United Kingdom); School of Health Sciences, City, University of London (United Kingdom)
From 1980 to September 2018
Peer-reviewed, published studies
37
<p>Although limited by low levels of evidence, findings indicated verb-in-isolation interventions to improve verbs targeted in treatment but were unable to demonstrate generalization to untrained verbs. The authors were also unable to determine the treatments' effects on sentence production, functional communication, and discourse.</p><p>Findings identified the potential active ingredients to include, but not limited to, the following:</p><ul> <li>phonological cues;</li> <li>semantic cueing;</li> <li>orthographic cues;</li> <li>gesture cues;</li> <li>sentence closure; and/or</li> <li>video (verb) stimuli.</li></ul>
