How I used a systematic approach (1): Aphasia - The right time to ACT
Author: Linda Armstrong & Jaclyn Dallas
Magazine issue: Summer 06
Page numbers: 24-26
Date: 29 May 2006
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A speech and language therapist’s tool box should include a variety of approaches to suit a client’s clinical need and learning style. This is the first of two articles which focus on therapy programmes that are systematic and finely graded. Client-centred goal negotiation, outcomes that really make a difference and effective use of limited therapy time are ideals that can be challenged we are working with clients with chronic severe aphasia. Linda Armstrong and Jaclyn Dallas discuss why they decided to use Beeson’s Anagram and Copy Treatment (ACT) and Copy and Recall Treatment (CART) protocols with one such client. They explain the timing of the decision and how this simple therapy paradigm effected significant improvement in their client’s written language and made the move towards discharge a more positive experience for the client, his family and the service.
