TY - JOUR
T1 - Speech and language therapy approaches to managing primary progressive aphasia
AU - Volkmer, Anna
AU - Rogalski, Emily
AU - Henry, Maya
AU - Taylor-Rubin, Cathleen
AU - Ruggero, Leanne
AU - Khayum, Rebecca
AU - Kindell, Jackie
AU - Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa
AU - Warren, Jason D.
AU - Rohrer, Johnathon D.
PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - The term primary progressive aphasia (PPA) describes a group of neurodegenerative disorders with predominant speech and language dysfunction as their main feature. There are three main variants - the semantic variant, the nonfluent or agrammatic variant and the logopenic variant - each with specific linguistic deficits and different neuroanatomical involvement. There are currently no curative treatments or symptomatic pharmacological therapies. However, speech and language therapists have developed several impairment-based interventions and compensatory strategies for use in the clinic. Unfortunately, multiple barriers still need to be overcome to improve access to care for people with PPA, including increasing awareness among referring clinicians, improving training of speech and language therapists and developing evidence-based guidelines for therapeutic interventions. This review highlights this inequity and the reasons why neurologists should refer people with PPA to speech and language therapists.
AB - The term primary progressive aphasia (PPA) describes a group of neurodegenerative disorders with predominant speech and language dysfunction as their main feature. There are three main variants - the semantic variant, the nonfluent or agrammatic variant and the logopenic variant - each with specific linguistic deficits and different neuroanatomical involvement. There are currently no curative treatments or symptomatic pharmacological therapies. However, speech and language therapists have developed several impairment-based interventions and compensatory strategies for use in the clinic. Unfortunately, multiple barriers still need to be overcome to improve access to care for people with PPA, including increasing awareness among referring clinicians, improving training of speech and language therapists and developing evidence-based guidelines for therapeutic interventions. This review highlights this inequity and the reasons why neurologists should refer people with PPA to speech and language therapists.
KW - aphasia
KW - frontotemporal dementia
KW - primary progressive aphasia
KW - speech therapy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070671597&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/practneurol-2018-001921
DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2018-001921
M3 - Article
C2 - 31358572
SN - 1474-7758
VL - 20
SP - 154
EP - 162
JO - Practical Neurology
JF - Practical Neurology
IS - 2
ER -