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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Top Stroke Rehabil. 2016 Mar 16;23(4):276–283. doi: 10.1080/10749357.2016.1155277

Table 2.

Description of the treatment activities for each individual and group session observed. All group therapy activities were preceded by a “warm-up” consisting of introductions, a review of the plan for the day's session, and a set of automatic speech tasks.

Participant Group size (# patients) Description of activities during individual treatment Description of activities during group treatment
1 3 • Automatic speech tasks
• Apraxia drills
• Oral-motor movements
• Functional gestures
• Reading/writing (word level)
• Structured conversation re: previous daily activities
• Game of “Hangman”
2 2 • Structured conversation re: football
• Category naming
• Writing
• Structured conversation re: weekend plans
• Game of “Wheel of Fortune”
3 5 • Counting/automatics
• Apraxia drills
• Yes/no questions
• Structured conversation re: cooking
• Yes/no questions
• Making choices on communication boards
• Structured conversation re: personal information
4 4 • Structured conversation
• Automatics
• Reading – matching task
• Yes/no questions
• Writing personal information
• Making lemonade (using multiple modalities in order to make requests for utensils, ingredients, etc.)
5 2 • Automatics
• Yes/no questions
• Structured conversation re: pie
• Writing at word level
• Singing
• Communication book/core words
• Game of “Go Fish”
6 3 • Structured conversation re: lunch
• Yes/no questions
• Reading at word level
• Picture description
• Making pudding
7 3 • Structured conversation
• Communication boards
• Core words and apraxia drills
• Writing/reading at word level
• Functional gestures
• Singing
• Auction
8 3 • Structured conversation re: football
• Automatics
• Yes/no questions
• Naming (verbal and written)
• Reading at word level
• Singing
• Game of “Hangman”
9 4 • Structured conversation
• Reading
• Oral spelling
• Picture description
• Automatic speech tasks
• Making lemonade
10 6 • Oral-motor movements
• Yes/no questions
• Reading/writing at word level
• Structured conversation
• Singing
• Auction