ABSTRACT
Recently, there has been growing interest in understanding how nonlinguistic cognitive
problems such as impaired attention might negatively affect the linguistic abilities
of adults with aphasia. This article begins with a summary of research focused on
the relationship between attention and language impairments in aphasia and a discussion
of why it might be important for clinicians to address the attention abilities of
their aphasic patients. Also discussed are formal and informal measures for quantifying
and qualifying attention problems, treatment strategies for directly or indirectly
remediating attention problems in patients with aphasia, and empirical support for
such treatment.
KEYWORD
Attention - aphasia - assessment - treatment
