Rosalind C Kaye

• PhD
• Project Manager at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Purpose: Script training for aphasia involves repeated practice of relevant phrases and sentences that, when mastered, can potentially be used in other communicative situations. Although an increasingly popular approach, script development can be time-consuming. We provide a detailed summary of the evidence supporting this approach. We then descri...

Purpose The importance of personalization in script training in aphasia has been assumed but never tested. This study compared acquisition and generalization of personally relevant versus generic words or phrases appearing in the same scripts. Method Eight individuals (6 men; 2 women) with chronic aphasia received 3 weeks of intensive computer-bas...

Purpose This study was designed to compare acquisition and maintenance of scripts under two conditions: high cue, which provided numerous multimodality cues designed to minimize errors, and low cue, which provided minimal cues. Method In a randomized controlled crossover study, eight individuals with chronic aphasia received intensive computer-bas...

There are several methods of delivering cortical brain stimulation to modulate cortical excitability and interest in their application as an adjuvant strategy in aphasia rehabilitation after stroke is growing. Epidural cortical stimulation, although more invasive than other methods, permits high frequency stimulation of high spatial specificity to...

Telepractice is an appropriate model of service delivery for a person with aphasia (PWA). We define telepractice and its two modes of delivery (i.e., synchronous and asynchronous). We detail a technology, web-Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (web-ORLA™), developed to provide aphasia treatment intensively from a distance and subsequently evaluat...

This study presents results of post-treatment interviews following computer-based script training for persons with chronic aphasia. Each of the 23 participants received 9 weeks of AphasiaScripts training. Post-treatment interviews were conducted with the person with aphasia and/or a significant other person. The 23 interviews yielded 584 coded comm...

Background: A growing body of research in aphasia treatment has indicated that greater amount and intensity of treatment is associated with better outcomes in individuals with chronic aphasia. AphasiaScriptsis a computerised conversational script training program that simultaneously collects accurate, reliable data about amount and intensity of tre...