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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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