Successful remote delivery of a treatment for phonological alexia via telerehab.

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Citation: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 26(4):584-609, 2016 AugPMID: 26018197Institution: MedStar Institute for InnovationForm of publication: Journal ArticleMedline article type(s): Case Reports | Journal ArticleSubject headings: *Cerebral Hemorrhage/rh [Rehabilitation] | *Dyslexia, Acquired/rh [Rehabilitation] | *Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery/rh [Rehabilitation] | *Stroke Rehabilitation/mt [Methods] | *Telerehabilitation/mt [Methods] | *Videoconferencing | Adult | Cerebral Hemorrhage/co [Complications] | Dyslexia, Acquired/et [Etiology] | Female | Humans | Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery/co [Complications] | Male | Middle AgedYear: 2016ISSN:
  • 0960-2011
Name of journal: Neuropsychological rehabilitationAbstract: A growing body of literature supports the effectiveness of the remote delivery of rehabilitation services, i.e., telerehab. Aphasia treatment is particularly well suited for telerehab because of the verbal and visual nature of speech-language therapy, but scientific research investigating aphasia telerehab is in its infancy. No studies to date have evaluated whether treatment of acquired reading disorders by a live clinician can be feasibly, effectively, or efficiently conducted via telerehab. Here we address this gap in the literature by reporting our success remotely remediating the reading deficits of two participants with phonological alexia. We adapted for the telerehab setting a previously validated treatment for phonological alexia (Friedman, Sample, & Lott, 2002 ), which uses a paired-associate design to train reading of problematic words. Both telerehab participants significantly improved their reading of trained words in similar time frames as previous participants (Friedman et al., 2002 ; Kurland et al., 2008 ; Lott, Sample, Oliver, Lacey, & Friedman, 2008 ); furthermore, both participants reported high satisfaction with the telerehab setting. Although telerehab with alexic patients poses unique challenges, we conclude that treatment for alexia via telerehab is nevertheless feasible, may be equally effective as in-person treatment, and saves substantial resources for participants as well as clinicians.All authors: Brennan D, Friedman R, Getz H, Snider SFiscal year: FY2017Digital Object Identifier: Date added to catalog: 2017-03-17
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A growing body of literature supports the effectiveness of the remote delivery of rehabilitation services, i.e., telerehab. Aphasia treatment is particularly well suited for telerehab because of the verbal and visual nature of speech-language therapy, but scientific research investigating aphasia telerehab is in its infancy. No studies to date have evaluated whether treatment of acquired reading disorders by a live clinician can be feasibly, effectively, or efficiently conducted via telerehab. Here we address this gap in the literature by reporting our success remotely remediating the reading deficits of two participants with phonological alexia. We adapted for the telerehab setting a previously validated treatment for phonological alexia (Friedman, Sample, & Lott, 2002 ), which uses a paired-associate design to train reading of problematic words. Both telerehab participants significantly improved their reading of trained words in similar time frames as previous participants (Friedman et al., 2002 ; Kurland et al., 2008 ; Lott, Sample, Oliver, Lacey, & Friedman, 2008 ); furthermore, both participants reported high satisfaction with the telerehab setting. Although telerehab with alexic patients poses unique challenges, we conclude that treatment for alexia via telerehab is nevertheless feasible, may be equally effective as in-person treatment, and saves substantial resources for participants as well as clinicians.

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