What Is Meant by “Multimodal Therapy” for Aphasia?

John E. Pierce, Robyn O’Halloran, Leanne Togher, and Miranda L. Rose

Author PDF doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-18-0157

The term "multimodal therapy" is often used when talking about treatments for aphasia. But there's no clear definition of what "multimodal therapy" means. We suggest a new way to define and group these treatments

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Proposed model

The three broad, proposed categories are:

  1. Verbal therapies, that use speech and orthography only (with or without picture stimuli)
  2. Multimodal therapies to improve verbal communication (speech or spelling)
  3. Multimodal therapies to improve total communication (any modality)