A COMPARISON of SEMANTIC FEATURE ANALYSIS AND PROMOTING APHASIC COMMUNICATIVE EFFectiveness FOR TREATING ANOMIA IN PATIENTS WITH APHASIA

This study used an alternating single-subject design to compare the effects of SFA and PACE on the long-term naming accuracy of two participants with chronic Broca’s aphasia. Each participant was treated using the traditional form of SFA and PACE independently. Naming probes were taken to provide data in order to compare the two treatments. The results indicated that both procedures produced similar long-term improvements in naming the target stimuli but that both participants preferred PACE over SFA. This study compared the effectiveness of Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) and Promoting Aphasics ’ Communicative Efficiency (PACE) in treating the word-finding difficulties of two individuals with Broca’s aphasia. SFA was designed to improve naming accuracy by presenting semantically related cues in a structured activity. There are six types of semantic cues in SFA