Browsing by Subject "Aphasia"

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The Adaptation and Validation of Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life (SAQOL-39) Scale for the Sinhala Language in the Sri Lankan Context.

Karunathilake, K.M.M.G.S.L.; Rathnayake, S.; Ranawaka, U.K. (19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)

Stroke and aphasia rehabilitation aims to improve the quality of life of the individuals affected. Aphasia is a disturbance of the language. Most of scales for measuring health-related quality of life in stroke exclude ...
Measurement properties of frenchay aphasia screening test across different languages: A COSMIN systematic review.

Jayasingha, J.A.P.P.; Ariyasena, A.D.K.; Siriwardhana, D.D. (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2023)

BACKGROUND: Aphasia is a language disorder that occurs due to damage to the brain; the left side of the brain contributes more towards language. Aphasia may cause problems in understanding, speaking, reading, or writing ...
Measurement properties of instruments assessing Aphasia impact on social participation: A COSMIN systematic review

de Za, T.A.P.; Munasinghe, T.U.; Siriwardhana, D.D. (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2023)

BACKGROUND: Aphasia is a language disorder that significantly limits a person's social participation. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) of social participation play an important role in clinical practice to ...
Speech therapy interventions for acquired apraxia of speech: An updated systematic review

Munasinghe, T.U.; Ariyasena, W.A.A.D.K.; Siriwardhana, D.D. (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2023)

PURPOSE: This systematic review aims to summarize and evaluate the available literature on speech and language therapy interventions for acquired apraxia of speech since 2012. METHOD: A systematic search in six electronic ...
A Study of the Strategies Used by Aphasics in the Retrieval of Words in Their First Language.

Weerasinghe, K. W. A. A. G. (The Third International Conference on Linguistics in Sri Lanka, ICLSL 2017. Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017)

Word retrieval difficulty is a characteristic of Aphasia, which is a language impairment that occurs due to brain damage. Stroke is the main cause of brain damage that results in Aphasia. Individuals utilize various ...
Use of spontaneous gesture patterns of people with aphasia at conversational level

Withana, H. (Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021)

Introduction: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that are part of everyday communication. The roles of gestures are facilitating speech; particularly when word finding difficulties (WFDs) occur. Objectives: ...

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