Phonomotor treatment employs a multi-modal (e.g. visual, acoustic, verbal, oral tactile-kinesthetic) treatment approach to strengthen impaired phonology in aphasia. This treatment aims to improve linguistic skills (e.g. word retrieval and reading) by tapping into cognitive skills (e.g. memory and attention). Case studies will be used to illustrate this treatment program.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of phonomotor treatment, including the use of multi-modal (e.g. visual, acoustic, verbal, oral tactile-kinesthetic) phonological tasks throughout the various stages of the treatment program.
- Participants will be able to identify the underlying cognitive processes (e.g. attention and memory) that are targeted by phonomotor treatment.
- Participants will be able to recognize that phonomotor treatment tasks can be adapted through a most-to-least cueing hierarchy to strengthen cognitive-linguistic skills.