AphasiaMate
Modules
The eight sections of AphasiaMate cover the main areas of language.
Auditory Processing
The exercises in this section all involve listening to an auditory stimulus (environmental
sound, word, sentence/question) and then selecting an appropriate response as
dictated by the instructions. In this module, there are five sub-sections and
within each there are various exercises to choose from: Auditory discrimination
- identifying environmental sounds, selecting between minimal pairs of words and
non-words; Understanding words - pointing to object pictures, body parts, adjectives,
colors, and verbs; Following instructions - functional tasks such as putting clothes
in a drawer and placing letters/numbers in a location; Memory/sequential tasks
- remembering a sequence of items and identifying items spoken in a list; Understanding
conversations - answering questions about video scenes of short, medium, and longer
conversations.
Visual Matching
In this section, tasks include matching object pictures, action pictures, shapes,
letters, numbers, and written items (nouns, verbs, and phrases).
Reading Comprehension
Exercises involve matching written words/phrases to object/action pictures;
matching sentences to pictures; completing sentences and paragraphs; understanding
paragraphs and practical reading; and synonym identification and idiom definition
matching.
Semantics
This section contains three subsections: Semantic relationships - selecting
semantically-related pictures/words; Odd-one-out - identifying pictures/words
that do not fit the category which the others fall into; Classification - identifying
pictures/words that belong to a named category, selecting pictures/words in
2-3 different categories.
Sentence Processing
There are four sub-sections of Sentence Processing: Sentence comprehension -
matching spoken/written sentences to pictures, answering "wh" questions, story
comprehension; Sentence judgment - judging which sentence is grammatically correct
or meaningful; Sentence completion - completing a sentence by selecting a correct
noun, verb, phrase, etc. that fits; Sentence building - putting the given pieces
into the correct order to form a sentence.
Spelling
The tasks in the Spelling section involve completing words by inserting a missing
letter or letters, solving anagrams, selecting correctly-spelled words and identifying
errors, rearranging segments of words, and spelling complete words from memory.
Time
Exercises include ones which involve moving the hour/minute hands on a clock
to match a spoken/written time, matching clock faces to written times, and solving
time problems.
Money
This group of tasks involves exercises of matching coins, matching spoken/written
amounts to coins, calculating the total value of coins and change, and solving
problems involving money.
Professional Edition
AphasiaMate is available as a full Professional Edition,
containing all modules and all exercises together with integrated functions
to allow the sequencing and control to customize within-clinic use by various
clients, and the reporting components that facilitate record keeping and report
generation.
Client CDs
AphasiaMate modules are also available on four CDs, suitable for use by clients
independently or with the assistance of a caregiver -- to supplement conventional
treatment. These client modules contain the exercises developed for the various
modules, but without the sequencing/control/reporting components. The following
client packages are available: Auditory Processing Module (all exercises) Time
and Money Modules (all exercises) Semantics and Sentence Processing Modules
(all exercises) Visual Matching, Reading Comprehension, and Spelling Modules
(all exercises).
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