"I know exactly where it is but I don't know where it's going..."
Author: Laorag Hunter, Helen Gowland, Siobhan MacAndrew & Trevor Harley
Magazine issue: Summer 07
Page numbers: 6-9
Date: 28 May 2007
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Helen Gowland has had conduction aphasia for seven years. At the start of the therapy episode described here, Helen’s speech production was stable / ‘stuck’. Helen has a high level of meta-linguistic awareness. She has word form knowledge with inability to complete the phonological form. Laorag linked the alphabet with semantically rich homophones and near homophones that Helen found meaningful, and reinforced these links by storing a picture of the link word along with a recording of the letter name in a Dynamo digitised communication aid. The impact of this therapy on Helen and on Laorag’s approach to trialling of stimulability in speech production with other clients is discussed.
