The Effect of Errorless Naming Treatment on Anomia in an Elderly Patient With Aphasia

• Published in: Sālmand. (Tihrān) Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 132 - 141
• Main Authors: Atefe Yousefi, Fariba Yadegari, Enayatollah Bakhshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Persian
• Published: University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Anomia; Aphasia; Stroke; Therapy
• ISSN: 1735-806X; 1735-806X

Objectives: Anomia is one of the most common problems that aphasic patients and therapists are involvedwith it. Because of the disruptive effect of anomia on communicative efficiency of aphasic patients,this study aimed at examining the effect of errorless naming treatment on naming ability in anaphasic patient. Methods & Materials: The subject was selected using purposeful sampling method. This interventionalsingle-subject study with ABA design was implemented on a 69-year-old woman with moderate Broca'saphasia and phonological errors. The participant was a literate, right-handed Persian speaking patientwith neither severe motor speech disorder nor significant auditory comprehension deficits. The patientunderwent 10 sessions of treatment using errorless naming treatment protocol (Raymer et al., 2012).Based on this method, the patient was given multiple opportunities to rehearse the correct name of apicture supported by repetition and oral reading, while avoiding production of errors during training. Results: The effect size in confrontational naming task after intervention in this patient for trained andcontrol words were 5.42 and 2.38, respectively. The linear trend line of correct responses percentageof trained and control words were 7.6 and 4.15, respectively. Improvements in the trained and controlword sets remained at a higher level than baseline, one week later. Also improvements in Persian WABand naming tests were noticed in posttreatment period. Conclusion: As a result of errorless naming treatment in the current study, the patient showed significantimprovements in naming of trained words but generalization was not noticeable for control words.Based on this finding, this method might be useful as a therapeutic protocol in Persian speaking aphasicpatients with anomia.