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- Title
Behavior analysis and aphasia: A current appraisal and suggestions for the future.
- Authors
Becker, April M.; Baltazar, Marla
- Abstract
Skinner's Verbal Behavior provided a starting point for understanding and technologically addressing language in a variety of contexts, including language disorders related to acquired brain injury such as aphasia. Subsequent work on verbal behavior in the context of aphasia has been relatively rare despite the sophistication of behavior analytic contributions to its conceptualization and treatment. In this article we discuss conceptualization, assessment, and rehabilitation approaches inside and outside behavior analysis to highlight the significant unrealized potentials that could come from increased behavior analytic involvement. Not only does such work stand to meaningfully contribute to rehabilitative technologies, but the study of natural lines of fracture revealed by brain injury holds a unique potential for testing, validating, and refining the Skinnerian approach to language.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of aphasia; SPEECH therapy; BEHAVIOR therapy; REHABILITATION of aphasic persons; VERBAL behavior
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2022, Vol 37, Issue 1, p170
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1848