What kinds of people with aphasia can benefit from SentenceShaper?
Many people with aphasia experience some kind of an aided effect: that is, they are able to produce better speech using SentenceShaper than they can usually produce spontaneously without the system. Even people who can hardly produce any words at all may be able to assemble utterances on SentenceShaper by using the word-finding tools. Some of these people will also show gains in their spontaneous, unaided speech after a period of SentenceShaper use. We are still studying this question, but, to date, the most striking treatment results (that is, improvements in spontaneous, unaided speech) have come from people with non-fluent aphasia, such as Broca’s aphasia. Some kinds of people are less likely to benefit from SentenceShaper use, although it is possible that techniques may yet be developed to help them make better use of the system. This aphasia software is less likely to work well for people who are unable to repeat even a single word, or show very poor single word comprehension, or
