Language treatment effects on communicative abilities and working memory in Korean-speaking agrammatic Broca’s aphasia caused by moyamoya disease: Phase II evidence from a case study

ABSTRACT

The present study reports on the language treatment outcomes from sentence- and story-level linguistic facilitation and its generalization effect on communicative abilities, working memory, and sentence processing in the case of an adult with Moyamoya Disease (MMD). After treatment,the patient’s overall performance, including the Aphasia Quotient, and sentence processing ability as measured by language testing, were improved. Furthermore, the treatment effects were generalizable to working memory abilities. Our case study conveys clinically meaningful implications since it is the first report on the effects of language treatment on linguistic and cognitive domains for an individual with MMD-induced agrammatic Broca’s aphasia

KEYWORDS:

• Moyamoya disease
• aphasia
• agrammatism
• language treatment
• generalization effect

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the [Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and National Research Foundation of Korea] under Grant [NRF-2019R1A2C1089280].

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant funded by the Korea government. (No. NRF-2019R1A2C1089280).