This course will use a case study to review the components, administration, scoring and interpretation of the Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test-Plus (CLQT⁺). The cognitive/linguistic profile of the case will be fleshed out with results of additional testing and all information will be used for diagnosis and treatment planning.

This course will use video demonstrations to present evidence-based approaches for improving reading within a group context. Participants will learn how to conduct interesting, interactive groups that support language and reading re-development.

This course provides a brief overview of narrative and conversational discourse. Emphasis is placed on the importance of discourse in patient-centered care and various approaches to incorporating discourse in aphasia rehabilitation.

The course highlights several clinical issues that are typically not addressed in aphasia texts but have the potential to influence the outcome of therapy. The authors provide concrete clinical recommendations.

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. This course reviews evidence-based practice and provides step-by-step training of a new semantically-based, sentence-level treatment approach for persons with aphasia: Semantic Priming to Improve Comprehension and Expression of Sentences (SPICES). (Part 1: Course 8293)

This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This course reviews evidence-based practice and provides an overview of relevant theory for the development of a new semantically-based sentence-level treatment approach for persons with aphasia: Semantic Priming to Improve Comprehension and Expression of Sentences (SPICES). (Part 2: Course 8296)

Many of the assessment instruments we use are norm-referenced tests that are standardized. There are certain statistical properties needed to understand the psychometric criteria of the tests, which is part of being an informed consumer. This course will help SLPs understand fundamental concepts of descriptive statistics so they can interpret test scores correctly and summarize quantitative data about their clients or patients.

Providing a prognosis for recovery for individuals with aphasia is an important part of clinical care, but accurate prediction is often limited. This course will discuss factors that influence recovery of language function following onset of aphasia, and biographical, behavioral, and medical variables that may aid provision of a prognosis.

This course will provide an overview of two evidence-based interventions for working with persons with dementia: Montessori-Based Dementia Programming and the Spaced Retrieval technique. Participants will learn about each intervention along with practical applications of each method to patients in different practice settings.

This course will review our current understanding of how the brain networks that underlie language processing may be functionally reorganized in aphasia. The discussion will be centered around four recent research publications.