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Volume 26 (1985)
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Volume 26, Issue 2
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A Comparison of Aged with Younger adult PatientsYoko Fukusako, Hisako Monoi1985 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 145-158
Published: April 25, 1985
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSA retrospective investigation was made into the prognosis of the language impairment of 303 aphasic patients, 97.0% of whom had had cerebrovascular accidents, and who had received at least 2 months of language therapy at the Speech Clinic of the Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital between 1972 and 1981. The type of aphasia as well as the recovery rate were determined using the Test for Differential Diagnosis of Aphasia (The Roken Test) .
The results were as follows
1) The number of the patients who showed substantial improvement of language function decreased with an increase in age. The number of the aphasic patients whose performance level on the test remained at a low level was significantly larger in the aged patients than in the younger adult ones.
2) The number of the patients who showed improvement as well as the prognosis of the recovery of language function was closely related with the age of the patients in some aphasic tunes but not in other types.
3) The number of the aged patients who showed improvement was consistently smaller than that of the younger adults regardless of the period when the language therapy had begun (except during the first 4 to 6 months post-onset) .
4) The number of the patients with general intellectual deficits in the aged aphasics was significantly larger than that in the youger adults and the former patients showed much less improvement than the latter ones.View full abstractDownload PDF (1747K) -
Haruyo Kobayashi, Michiko Horiuchi, Yoshisato Tanaka1985 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 159-166
Published: April 25, 1985
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSA follow-up study was made to evaluate present language ability of the hearing-impaired children of school-age who had initially participated in our home training program. We studied their audiovisual comprehension of spoken words, sentences, and a short story through a video-tape recorder. We devided the hearing-impaired group into a moderately and a severely hearing-impaired group and compared the score between these two groups. We also compared the score of the hearing-impaired group with that of the control group. The study results were as follows
1. In both group of the hearing-impaired, the higher the reading age scored at the standardized reading test was, the better the score of comprehension of spoken words, sentences, and a short story was.
2. The score obtained by the moderately hearing-impaired group was better than that by the severely hearing-impaired group, when the reading age was equal for both groups.
3. In the test of comprehension of a short story, hearing-impaired group could get equal score with the control group when their reading age was higher than that of the control group by 1-3 years.View full abstractDownload PDF (920K) -
from the Viewpoint of Information ProcessingKeiko Nojima, Ikuyo Fujita, Hiroko Hayata1985 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 167-173
Published: April 25, 1985
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTo investigate the ability of aphasics to retain verbal and nonverbal materials four memory tasks were administered to 28 patients with Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia, and 10 normal subjects. The verbal materials, presented visually and orally, were selected from the common objects. The namable set consisted of the objects the aphasic patients could easily name, while the unnamable set consisted of the objects they failed to name. The nonverbal materials were visually presented random shapes.
The major findings were the following
1) Although the retention span of the verbal materials in the aphasic patients was significantly smaller than that in the normal subjects, no significant group difference was found in the nonverbal materials.
2) In the patients with Wernicke's aphasia the pointing span of the namable objects was superior to that of the unnamable objects, when they were presented orally.
3) An inspection of correlation coefficients between the memory tasks revealed that the normal subjects tend to whereas the aphasic patients tend to retain them in terms of multiple codes, i.e., acoustic, visual and semantic codes.
The underlying mechanisms of aphasics retention deficiency specific to the verbal materials were discussed.View full abstractDownload PDF (989K) -
[in Japanese]1985 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 174-182
Published: April 25, 1985
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
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