Clinical Implications of Tompkins’ Research on Right Hemisphere Language Disorders

By: Prof. C. Tompkins, Ph. D.

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Index

Clinical Implications of Tompkins’ Research on Right Hemisphere Language Disorders

Some Guiding Premises

This Material

Challenges to Clinicians and Researchers

Challenges…

Symptom Overview

Symptom Overview

Symptom overview

Some Accounts for Characteristic Communicative Problems

Some Task Considerations in RHD Research

Task considerations...

Elaboration on Selected Accounts...

1. With tasks constructed to tap implicit knowledge/ “automatic activation” in problem domains, RHD similar to normal controls.

Elaboration on Selected Accounts...

Application to RHD Comprehension

Suppression and Comprehension

Intersection with Other Accounts

Clinical Implications

Reducing processing load...

Reducing Processing Load...

Clinical Implications

Treatment for Suppression Deficit

Beyond Theories of the Deficit

Foundations that go beyond theories of deficit