Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: August | Volume: 9 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 89-96
Cueing Strategies for Different Grammatical Class of Words in Broca’s Aphasia
Archana Rao R1, Deepak P2
1Assistant Professor, Naseema Institute of Speech and Hearing, Banglore-560034.
2Junior Research Fellow, Dept. of Speech Language Pathology, AIISH, Mysuru-570006.
Corresponding Author: Archana Rao R
ABSTRACT
Cueing techniques are often utilized in the treatment of aphasic naming deficits. Cueing technique includes repetition, sentence completion, semantic cueing and phonemic cueing, which helps in eliciting responses from aphasic subjects to stimuli they cannot name. Previous studies have recognized the viability of cueing as a technique for helping the aphasic patient, but they have presented little systematic research to support the effectiveness of various cues. Hence the current investigation was designed to study the effects of two cueing techniques, semantic cueing and phonologic cueing, on persons with Broca’s Aphasia who represented different levels of lexical -semantic processing impairment. Fifteen participants aged between 40-70 years and diagnosed with Broca’s Aphasia were selected for the study. Stimuli included 20 black-and-white line drawings of both nouns and verbs. Pictures of nouns were taken from Boston Naming Test and verbs from Action Naming Battery. The procedure was divided into 2 phases based on the cueing strategy used. These phases were carried out for both nouns and verbs. In phase 1, phonemic cueing was used for five words related to nouns and five words related to verbs were used. In phase 2, semantic cueing was used for a set of different five words were used for each nouns and verbs. Results of the study revealed phonemic cueing were better than semantic cues and interestingly there was no difference noticed across different grammatical class of words.
Key words: Broca’s Aphasia. Phonemic Cueing, Semantic Cueing, Verb and Noun Naming, Word Retrieval.