Journal article
Demystifying the Complexity of Aphasia Treatment: Application of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification Systemx
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Vol.103(3), pp.574-580
03/2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.025
PMID: 34748758
Abstract
A considerable body of research supports the use of behavioral communication treatment as the standard of care for aphasia. In spite of robust progress in clinical aphasiology, many questions regarding optimal care remain unanswered. One of the major challenges to progress in the field is the lack of a common framework to adequately describe individual treatments, which, if available, would allow comparisons across studies as well as improved communication among researchers, clinicians, and other stakeholders. Here, we describe how aphasia treatment approaches can be systematically characterized using the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS). At the core of the RTSS is a tripartite structure that focuses on targets (the behavior that is expected to change as a result of treatment), ingredients (what a clinician does to affect change in the target), and mechanism(s) of action (why a given treatment works by linking the ingredients to the target). Three separate articles in the current issue specifically describe how the RTSS can be used to describe different kinds of aphasia treatment approaches: functional approaches, cognitive-linguistic approaches, and biological approaches. It is our hope that the application of the RTSS in clinical aphasiology will improve communication in published studies, grant proposals, and in the clinical care of persons with aphasia.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Demystifying the Complexity of Aphasia Treatment: Application of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification Systemx
- Creators
- Julius Fridriksson - University of South CarolinaAlexandra Basilakos - University of South CarolinaMary Boyle - Montclair State UniversityLeora R Cherney - Northwestern UniversityGayle DeDe - Temple UniversityJean K Gordon - University of IowaStacy M Harnish - The Ohio State UniversityElizabeth L Hoover - Boston UniversityWilliam D Hula - University of PittsburghRebecca Hunting Pompon - University of DelawareLorelei Phillip Johnson - University of South CarolinaSwathi Kiran - Boston UniversityLaura L Murray - Western UniversityMiranda L Rose - La Trobe UniversityJessica Obermeyer - University of North Carolina at GreensboroChristos Salis - Newcastle UniversityGrant M Walker - University of California, IrvineNadine Martin - Temple University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, Vol.103(3), pp.574-580
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.025
- PMID
- 34748758
- NLM abbreviation
- Arch Phys Med Rehabil
- ISSN
- 0003-9993
- eISSN
- 1532-821X
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2022
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984258845602771
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