The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders

Edited by Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi

Oxford Library of Psychology

Incorporates historical perspectives on aphasia that continue to influence research and clinical practice
Integrates neural and cognitive neuropsychological perspectives on aphasia and related communication disorders
Bridges neural and cognitive theories to guide theoretically-motivated clinical practice in the assessment and treatment of aphasia and related communication disorders
Provides an in-depth view for each aphasia syndrome
Includes case examples that demonstrate how to use neural and cognitive insights to guide assessment and intervention

The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders

Edited by Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi

Description

What is immediately clear when meeting individuals with acquired brain damage is that the patterns of communication impairments vary in remarkable ways among these individuals. Aphasia and related communication disorders, while devastating life events for individuals who acquire brain damage, provide lessons of considerable interest to many clinicians and researchers trying to understand the brain's neurological and psychological complexity and develop methods to facilitate optimum recovery of lost language and communication functions following brain damage. The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders weaves theoretical and neurological foundations with rational, motivated clinical approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for aphasia and related communication disorders. The contributing authors, experienced clinicians and scientists with strong backgrounds in neurological and cognitive neuropsychological theories, bridge theory to clinical practice, reviewing the extant literature in each aphasia syndrome while exploring implications for guiding clinical decision-making.

Introductory chapters provide historical perspectives on the aphasia syndromes following left hemisphere brain damage, and review aphasia assessment across the decades. The bulk of the Handbook covers aphasia syndromes, with chapters that describe each aphasia syndrome in detail, including behavioral, neural, and cognitive neuropsychological correlates and methods to assess and treat each syndrome. Additional chapters provide insights into acquired reading and writing disorders and social and prosodic communication disorders that follow damage to the right cerebral hemisphere. The final chapters examine neural perspectives on aphasia recovery and principles of neuroplasticity in aphasia treatment. As such, this book integrates neural, cognitive, and clinical perspectives to provide a broad understanding of the complexity of language and impairments that can arise following acquired brain damage, and will be of interest to scholars and clinicians in the speech-language, neuropsychology, and rehabilitation professions.

The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders

Edited by Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi

Oxford Library of Psychology

About the Editors
Contributors
Part One: Introduction
1: Aphasia Syndromes: Introduction and Value in Clinical Practice
Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi
2: Aphasia Syndromes and Information Processing Models: A Historical Perspective
Kenneth M. Heilman
3: Aphasia Assessment
Janet P. Patterson
Part Two: Aphasia Syndromes
4: Wernicke's Aphasia: Auditory Processing and Comprehension
Margaret L. Greenwald
5: Conduction Aphasia: Impaired Phonological Processing
Carolyn E. Wilshire
6: Semantic Processing in Transcortical Sensory Aphasia
Jamie Reilly and Nadine Martin
7: Anomia and Anomic Aphasia: Implications for Lexical Processing
Stacy M. Harnish
8: Broca's Aphasia and Grammatical Processing
Lynn M. Maher
9: Global Aphasia
Elizabeth E. Galletta and A. M. Barrett
10: Transcortical Motor Aphasia
Bruce A. Crosson, Anastasia Ford, and Anastasia M. Raymer
11: Mixed Transcortical Aphasia: Repetition without Meaning
Annette Baumgärtner
12: Acquired Alexias: Mechanisms of Reading
Ellyn A. Reilly, Elizabeth Brookshire, and Diane L. Kendall
13: Acquired Dysgraphias: Mechanisms of Writing
Pélagie Beeson and Kindle Rising
Part Three: Language and Right Hemisphere Damage
14: Discourse and Social Cognition Disorders Affecting Communication Abilities
Maximiliano A. Wilson, Bernadette Ska, and Yves Joanette
15: Right Hemisphere Damage and Prosody
Susan A. Leon, Amy D. Rodriguez, John C. Rosenbek
Part Four: Clinical Implications
16: Biological Markers of Aphasia Recovery after Stroke
Marcus Meinzer, Lena Ulm, and Robert Lindenberg
17: Principles of Aphasia Rehabilitation
Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi
Index

The Oxford Handbook of Aphasia and Language Disorders

Edited by Anastasia M. Raymer and Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Edited by Anastasia M. Raymer, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Disorders and Special Education, Old Dominion University, and Edited by Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi, Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine

Anastasia Raymer, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Disorders and Special Education at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She is recognized for her research, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense, to optimize rehabilitation of aphasia, limb apraxia, and agraphia. She is past-president of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Leslie Gonzalez Rothi, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida. She is known for her work, supported by the NIH and Veterans Administration (VA), examining neural and cognitive correlates of aphasia and related disorders and the integration of principles of neuroplasticity to maximize rehabilitation outcomes. She is past-president of the International Neuropsychological Society and the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences; is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association Division 40; and is a Fellow and recipient of Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Contributors:

A. M. Barrett
Stroke Rehabilitation Research
Kessler Foundation Research Center
East Hanover, New Jersey, USA

Annette Baumgärtner
Department of Health and Social Affairs
Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
Hamburg, Germany

Pélagie Beeson
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Department of Neurology
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Elizabeth Brookshire
School of Communication Science and Disorders
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Bruce A. Crosson
Brain Rehabilitation Research Center
Malcom Randall VA Medical Center
Gainesville, Florida, USA;
Departments of Neurology and Radiology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
Department of Psychology
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia

Anastasia Ford
Department of Veterans Affairs
Rehabilitation Research and Development
Brain Rehabilitation Research Center
Malcom Randall VA Medical Center
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Elizabeth E. Galletta
Department of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
Hunter College, the City University of New York
New York, New York, USA

Leslie J. Gonzalez Rothi
Department of Neurology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Margaret L. Greenwald
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA

Stacy M. Harnish
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA

Kenneth M. Heilman
Department of Neurology
College of Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Yves Joanette
School of Speech Therapy and Audiology
Unversité de Montréal Medical School
Centre de recherché
Institute universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Diane L. Kendall
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Veterans Administration Medical Center Puget Sound
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA

Susan A. Leon
Veterans Affairs
RR&D Brain Rehabilitation Research Center
Department of Neurology
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Robert Lindenberg
Department of Neurology
Center for Stroke Research Berlin
Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure
Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Lynn M. Maher
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Houston
Houston, Texas, USA

Nadine Martin
Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Marcus Meinzer
Center for Clinical Research
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia;
Department of Neurology
Center for Stroke Research Berlin
Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure
Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Janet P. Patterson
Audiology & Speech Pathology Service
VA Northern California Health Care System
Martinez, California, USA

Anastasia M. Raymer
Communication Disorders and Special Education
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Ellyn A. Reilly
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York, USA

Jamie Reilly
Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Kindle Rising
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Amy D. Rodriguez
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia;
Department of Veterans Affairs
Atlanta VA Rehabilitation Research & Development
Center of Excellence for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation
Atlanta VA Medical Center
Decatur, Georgia, USA

John C. Rosenbek
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Bernadette Ska
School of Speech Therapy and Audiology
Unversité de Montréal Medical School
Centre de recherché
Institute universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lena Ulm
Department of Neurology
Center for Stroke Research Berlin
Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure
Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Carolyn E. Wilshire
School of Psychology
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand

Maximiliano A. Wilson
Centre de Recherche
Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada