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Convergent Naming

This document describes a convergent naming activity for individuals with aphasia. The activity involves worksheets with lists of descriptions that the participant must match to either a name or concept. It is an extraindividual activity that requires no interaction with others. The activity could help improve cognitive skills like reading, writing, and word finding for people with aphasia, who have difficulty with these due to brain damage or injury. The facilitator would adapt it by having participants discuss the words and concepts being described to further improve communication and social skills.

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Convergent Naming

This document describes a convergent naming activity for individuals with aphasia. The activity involves worksheets with lists of descriptions that the participant must match to either a name or concept. It is an extraindividual activity that requires no interaction with others. The activity could help improve cognitive skills like reading, writing, and word finding for people with aphasia, who have difficulty with these due to brain damage or injury. The facilitator would adapt it by having participants discuss the words and concepts being described to further improve communication and social skills.

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Alexandra

Long

a. Convergent Naming

b. Sources:

An Overview of Aphasia. (n.d.). Retrieved December 04, 2017, from

https://www.webmd.com/brain/aphasia-causes-symptoms-types-treatments#1

SLP. (2016, October 02). Retrieved December 04, 2017, from

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/290341507211972539/?lp=true

c. Equipment needed: activity worksheets

d. Activity Description

1. Worksheets will be given to the participant to complete.

2. There will be a list of descriptions for either a name or a concept.

3. The participant will read each list of descriptions and write the answer on the

corresponding line.

e. Primary interaction pattern(s) This activity is extraindividual which is an action

directed by a person toward an object, requires no contact with another person.

f. Activity Adaptation

I would choose to use this activity with individuals who have aphasia. Due to damage or

injury to the brain, aphasia is a communication disorder that causes individuals to have

difficulty with word finding while speaking, understanding conversation, reading and writing,

but does not impair their intelligence (An). This activity can help improve the individuals

cognitive skills such as reading, writing, and word finding. (E.g. One of the descriptions could be,

whiskers, tabby, stray, feline, meow, purrs, nine lives, soft fur.) The participant has the
opportunity to process these descriptions and practice their word finding. I would adapt this

activity by having the participants discuss the words or concepts being described. This can also

improve their communication through speaking as well as enhance social aspects.

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