Abstract
The Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) provides a framework to identify
specific components of treatments developed within various rehabilitation disciplines
(eg, physical, occupational, or speech-language therapy). Furthermore, this framework
offers the opportunity to identify the target and active ingredients of a therapy
approach as well as the mechanism of action by which it is hypothesized to effect
change in abilities or functions. In this article, we apply the RTSS framework to
the characterization of a sample of treatments for aphasia that are based on cognitive-linguistic
models of language processing. Our discussion of these applications centers on the
benefits of this classification system and additional criteria to consider when evaluating
cognitive-linguistic treatments for aphasia.
Keywords
List of abbreviations:
MIT (Melodic Intonation Therapy), MOA (mechanism of action), SFA (semantic feature analysis), PWA (person/people with aphasia), RTSS (Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System), TUF (Treatment of Underlying Forms)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: November 22, 2021
Accepted:
July 7,
2021
Received in revised form:
May 26,
2021
Received:
March 12,
2021
Footnotes
All authors contributed equally to the article.
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