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Abstract
Aphasia is a disorder of language processing caused by a lesion in particular brain regions. Treatment aims at improving or restoring impaired function or at compensating for deficits. More recently, computer technology has been integrated into treatment options. In this study, a detailed and comprehensive computerized software program for aphasia rehabilitation was designed for the treatment of Arabic speaking Egyptian aphasic patients.
Aim of the study: The aim of the work is to:
1. Develop a comprehensive computerized software program for the rehabilitation of Arabic speaking Egyptian aphasic patients.
2. Test the effect of the program after its application.
Subjects: A total of 105 aphasic patients who attended the Phoniatrics unit, Alexandria main university hospitals, Egypt from January 2018 to September 2019 were screened for eligibility and fifty subjects met the eligibility criteria and enrolled in the study. Those eligible patients represented the different types of aphasia except Wernicke’s, conduction and transcortical sensory aphasia (we didn’t find eligible subjects with these types of aphasia). Adult aphasic patients were included. The age range of the eligible patients was 32-76 years. Both sexes are included.
Methodology: The application of the study was in the form of a prospective randomized controlled trial. A total of 105 aphasic patients were screened for eligibility and fifty subjects met the eligibility criteria. The training materials were designed as a software program. Each patient was subjected to assessment before and after the application of the rehabilitation program. Patients were randomized into two groups: group I who received therapy using the software aphasia rehabilitation program and group II who received the conventional (traditional) language therapy. Therapy continued for 48 sessions over six months.
Results: The pre-therapy results of BDAE showed insignificant difference between both groups in most of the items. This little variation in the pre-therapy results may be due to that most of the patients who seek medical help have moderate to severe disorder so there was no great variation in the results pre-therapy.
As regard to the improvement of language abilities as detected by BDAE, both groups showed significant improvement in all items after therapy except Word finding relative to fluency (Conversational and expository speech part) for group II and matching item (reading part) for group I because patients had relatively good results in these items pre-therapy. The mean differences of pre and post-therapy results between both groups were insignificant for most of the items except phrase length, melodic line, word finding relative to fluency, paraphasia, repetition, responsive naming, Boston naming test, and matching items. group I showed more significant improvement in all these items except matching item (patients had relatively good results in this item pre-therapy so there was insignificant difference post-therapy).