I am thinking about adapting language therapy for children to adults with aphasia and I know there is a debate among linguists and patholinguists, but I cannot find any literature. Could anyone help me?
You may want to turn your search to the literature in Speech Language Pathology. The neurological systems of developing children are fundamentally different from an adult with aphasia. In our profession these two populations are treated very different with very different methods. Martha Taylor Sarno, Silverman, Sands published an article early 70's about "re-learning" Howard & Patterson, 1990 also consider the idea of re-teaching informaiton
Thank you very much for your answer. You are definitely right to give the advise searching in Speech Language Pathology but I have. The Problem is, that I want to treat the lexicon-syntax-interface in agrammatic adults but in German there aren´t any useful approaches. So I think a look outside the box would be possible. Perhaps it could be assumed it would be feasible to activate processing mechanisms in a similar manner in both agrammatic adults and speech-learning child. Zuckerman et al. also think, that children and adults show in this modality the same symptoms but work with it in another way. I know it´s daring to think about such a thing and I am really curious about the result of my investigation. best regards
Hi Cornilia,
Cynthia K. Thompson and Lew Shapiro's work in looking at the results of training basic vs. complex linguistic structures in individual's who present with agrammatic aphasia compares the results of training basic vs. complex structures. Their work speaks to both the importance of understanding the structure of language and the differences between language acquistion and language rehabilitation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847567/
This link is for an abstract to in research published in Aphasiology.
Good luck with your investigation.
Thanks a lot for your answer and for the link, you gave. I can definitely use it for my theoretical frame. Best regards
Hi Cornelia--
Yes, in agreement with the preceding discussion, the notion that aphasia represents a "dissolution" or reversal of patterns evidenced in child language acquisition may not be a viable model. If you still want to read a classic discussion that speaks in favor of this stance, it would be Jakobson's work:
Jakobson R., Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals, 1941
As for alternative frameworks, the notion of markedness may be of interest to you. Also, you might explore the discussions of functionalist schools of linguistics regarding the various roles played by morpho-syntactic forms in their context of use:
cf: Givon, T. (1984/1990) Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction (Vols. 1 & 2, respectively). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
cf: Halliday, MAK (1994). An Introduction to Functional Grammar (2nd ed.). London/NY/Sydney: Edward Arnold.
All best in your work and pursuits.
Dear Gloria,
thank you very much for your answer. I´ll immediately look for the literature you gave.
All best for you
Hi Cornelia, you mentioned the "lexicon-syntax interface", and I wondered if Sentence Shaper might be close to what you're looking for? Its for adults, but its focus is on allowing them to work on a sentence word by word, recoding each word as they go and playing it back till they get something close to what they're aiming for. Regular use has positive benefits in normal spontanteous speech.Here is the link: http://sentenceshaper.com/
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