Treatment of Grammatical Time Marking in Post-Stroke Aphasia

"The treatment focuses on grammatical time marking. The aim of the treatment is to train underlying grammatical time marking processes, which were identified as deficient during a preliminary evaluation. The intervention is composed of 4 steps inspired by models and hypotheses from the literature on the subject. Step 1: temporal adverbial selection, subject must identify the tense encoded in sentences and select the correct adverbial among those proposed. Step 2: selection of inflected verb forms, subject must identify the tense encoded in the sentence and select the correct verb form among those proposed. Step 3: production of inflected verb forms, subject must identify the tense encoded in the sentence and produce inflected verbs. Step 4: semantic narration, subject must describe scenes using verbs inflected according to the previously defined reference time."