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perhaps reduce the number of items they could potentially learn (see section
2.6). Previous studies have not indicated the optimum amount of information
that people with aphasia could learn (see section 2.9.1). It was decided
therefore, to propose a training regime of five creatures per day for a period of
four days and offer a period of independent learning time of 30 minutes each
day following the initial training. This proposed methodology was evaluated in
the next three studies (Chapter 4), which involved the piloting of the procedure
with an adult with normal cognitive and language processing, an adult who had
a stroke but did not have aphasia as well as with an adult with aphasia.
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