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