FACEREADER BY NOLDUS USED TO ASSESS EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE WITH APHASIA
FACEREADER BY NOLDUS USED TO ASSESS EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE WITH APHASIA

Summary/Abstract: Aphasia is the dysfunction of the higher integrating brain activity regarding language and speech. Treatment is generally based on speech language therapy. Finding ways to enhance speech therapy based on communication skills that remain intact presents the main research interest for clinical linguistics. Both the language of the formulas and the emotional language are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain, and therefore remain intact in most cases. Narrowing down the research of formulaic language to emotional language in people with aphasia one can state that these patients mostly express negative feelings due to the nature of their condition, but when thinking of important events and family they often display happiness. The FaceReader software by Noldus applied to aphasic patients registered in the AphasiaBank data base outlines that patients, in almost all cases, are capable of using emotional language and of displaying emotions. When communication is impaired any additional “tool” that facilitates the positive outcome of aphasia therapy should be considered.

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