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Semin Speech Lang 1999; 20(4): 303-309
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1064024
© 1999 by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.

Right Hemisphere Dysfunction: Therapeutic Intervention from Acute Care to Home Health

Martha S. Burns1 , Ava Schneider2 , Christine Buth2 , Nancy Eisenberg2 , Amy Kelly2 , Cheri Carl Litwin2 , Amy Sonin2 , Holly Buckley2 , M. Brooke Glass3
  • 1Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
  • 2Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois
  • 3Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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15 May 2008 (online)

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ABSTRACT

This article discusses clinical practice variances in speech-language treatment of patients with right hemisphere dysfunction by therapeutic milieu. With an eye toward enhanced cost effectiveness, a model of intervention is presented that takes a patient from acute care management through rehabilitation. Issues discussed include assessment, family training, goal setting, and documentation. A right hemisphere screening tool is included in an appendix for use in acute and transitional care settings where in-depth testing might be inappropriate because of time constraints or the acute or transitory nature of the patient's symptoms.

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intervention model - setting-based care - family checklist