Language Therapy
Who might need language therapy?
Language therapy for adults focuses on helping individuals who have difficulties with understanding, expressing, or processing language. This may include difficulty finding the right words to communicate and trouble communicating effectively. Language therapy may focus on receptive or expressive language, reading or writing, as well as social communication skills.
What might language therapy look like?
Language therapy will look different depending on the specific domain being targeted (e.g expressive/receptive language, reading, writing). Therapy may involve practice following directions, answering questions and understanding spoken language. It may also involve helping individuals find the right words to express their thoughts, naming tasks, and practice formulating cohesive sentences. Strategies to use during everyday life to assist in effectively communicating will also be introduced. Therapy targeting reading or writing may involve practice reading passages or working on writing words and sentences. The goals of language therapy are to enhance the individual's ability to understand spoken and written language and effectively communicate with confidence.
Conditions treated by language therapy
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Aphasia is the most common language disorder that occurs in adults with deficits in language following some type of brain damage, most commonly a stroke.
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Primary progressive aphasia is a different type of aphasia which is caused by neurodegenerative diseases.