Author: Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX

The National Institute of Health is funding a research study to compare and contrast the errorless learning approach and the errorful learning approach to the rehabilitation of sentence production. This study involves therapy four days per week for 1.5 hours a day. The study will last approximately six months. The study team is actively looking for Aphasia survivors who would be willing to participate in this study, taking place at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.

The study is being conducted by Dr. Lynn Maher, a researcher in the area of Aphasia rehabilitation, and Ms. Jennifer Swearengin, a research Speech-Language Pathologist at the Houston VA Medical Center. All screenings, evaluations, and therapies are provided free of charge. If you are interested, contact Dr. Maher via email at lmaher@bcm.tmc.edu, or by calling (713) 798-7451.

In errorless learning, the participant is given sufficient assistance so that he/she will not make a mistake while producing sentences. With practice and success, the assistance is gradually removed so that the participant is generating sentences independently. The study also investigates two types of intervention for sentence production: mapping treatment and traditional treatment.

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