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weekly speech and language therapy. P3 lived with his wife and was fully mobile
with no residual paresis but had post-stroke epilepsy which was managed by
medication. He was a retired pharmacist who had completed 20 years in
education (encompassing two undergraduate degrees and a post-graduate
degree). P3 described his language difficulties as frustrating, as some days his
speech was fluent and on others he was unable to speak intelligibly. He stated
that he knew the words he wanted to say, but found great difficulty pronouncing
them. He reported that he did not experience any memory processing difficulties
and his reading and writing skills, while impaired, were gradually improving.
4.6.2 Training and assessment sessions
P3 was eager to succeed and showed consistent attention to all procedures. He
followed all instructions easily and completed all tasks with no apparent
difficulties. P3 participated in the pre-training screening assessments, training
and immediate recall of all four sessions, and also delayed recall tasks. He
reported these procedures to be straightforward and had no difficulties with the
instructions or tasks.
Task
Pre-training baseline assessments
Training session one
Training session two
Training session three
Training session four
Delayed assessments
Table 4.10
Pilot Study Three
Timing of all sessions for P3
Total time
60 minutes
60 minutes
60 minutes
50 minutes
65 minutes
50 minutes
P3 utilised the full 30 minutes allotted for independent learning for each session
and the length of time required for all training and assessments is presented by
session in Table 4.10. A number of methodological issues arose following the
training and assessment sessions and are now discussed.
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