Treatments for aphasia include:
Melodic Intonation Therapy
Semantic Feature Analysis
Treatment for (Reducing) Aphasic Preservation
Treatment of Underlying Forms
Constraint-induced language therapy
Phonological Component Analysis
Treatment for Wernicke's Aphasia
Voluntary Control of Involuntary Utterances
Promoting Aphasic's Communicative Effectiveness
Oral reading for Language in Aphasia
Visual Action Therapy
Aphasia Scripts
Anagram Copy and Recall Treatment
Multiple Oral Rereading
Response Elaboration Treatment
Verb Network Strengthening Treatment
Texas Contrastive Language Series
Sentence Production Program for Aphasia
Communicative Drawing Program
Use intonation and hand tapping to help create fluent speech.
For Broca's aphasia and apraxia
(Megan, 2024a)
Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) for Aphasia & Apraxia: A 'How To' Guide
It is a therapy technique that focuses on the meaning-based properties of nouns.
It is used for mild to moderate aphasia.
In this approach after each picture is presented the category, function, action, location, association, and properties will be discussed.
(Megan, 2024)
Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) for Anomia in Aphasia: How-To Guide
An approach to help expand the utterances of those with aphasia.
It involves asking the patient wh questions and modeling in order to expand their sentence length.
Response Elaboration Training: How to Improve Sentences in Aphasia
Teaches the PWA to analyze the sounds in words.
Steps
Place picture in front of client and ask then to name it.
Ask for the first sound, another word that starts with that sound, last sound, rhymes, and number of syllables.
Then ask them to the picture again.
(Megan, 2025)
Phonological Components Analysis for Aphasia - How To Guide for PCA
The PWA reads the passage a few times to help with fluency and recognition of words.
(Megan, 2025)
Multiple Oral Re-Reading (MOR) for Aphasia: A 'How To' Guide
Delay
Describe
Associations
Synonyms
First Letter
Gesture
Draw
Look it up
Narrow it down
Come back later
(Megan, 2025)
Word-Finding Strategies for Aphasia - A How-To Guide & Top 10 List