As guest editors, we are happy to release this volume of Dementia & Neuropsychologia, focused on Language assessment and treatment.
The Views & Reviews section brings two texts. Evolution of Language Assessment in Patients with Neurological Acquired Disorders in Brazil presents a historical perspective and an overview of the transformations undergone by language evaluation of patients with acquired neurological damage in Brazil. Transcranial brain stimulation for post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation discusses consensus and controversies about modern techniques for rehabilitation of language disorders arising from focal neurological lesions.
In the Original Articles section, we have 11 articles, seven focused on evaluation and four on rehabilitation. Adaptation and cross-cultural validation to the Portuguese language were the aims in Semantic memory for actions and Adaptation of the CAPPA to the Portuguese. Methods of language analysis for healthy individuals are presented in Automatic Classification of Written Descriptions. Oral and written language evaluations of individuals with focal lesions were also examined in Acquired dysgraphia in adults and Inferential abilities in patients with right hemisphere damage. Diffuse lesions were the topic of Naming performance in bilingual speakers with dementia and Discourse of Patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. The issue of rehabilitation was addressed in a systematic review - Rehabilitation of lexical and semantic communicative impairments and in two interventional studies in dementia: Discourse intervention in Alzheimers disease and Interdisciplinary therapy in dementia.
Finally, in the session of Case Reports different methods in the rehabilitation of agrammatism were presented: in degenerative disease, Brief intervention for agrammatism in Primary Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia, and in aphasia due to vascular lesion, Sentence production and rehabilitation of agrammatism.
We highlight the publication of a case study awarded by ACHÉ Laboratory in an initiative of Prof. Dr. Ricardo Nitrini and Dr. Sonia Brucki. This case study was aimed at differential diagnosis between Logopenic aphasia and Alzheimer's.
We hope this issue will contribute to knowledge on Recent Changes in Assessment and Intervention in Neurological Disorders of Language.
Leticia Mansur
Karin Zazo Ortiz
Jed A. Meltzer
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
Sept 2014
