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THe aphasia Series Volume 1: SFA, RET, and RAP

The first three books in The Aphasia Series are available at Amazon as a bundle in eBook format and print on demand. The print version includes reproducible copies of all supplemental materials and access to the eBook.

Supplemental materials:

The Clinician's Guide to Response Elaboration Training for Aphasia

The Clinician's Guide to Response Elaboration Training for Aphasia will introduce you to the ins-and-outs of RET, a treatment that systematically facilitates the expansion of patient-initiated verbal responses using a forward chaining technique.


This Recipe SLP guide provides step-by-step how-to for implementing RET for individuals with aphasia and Modified RET for individuals with aphasia and apraxia. This guide explains the theory behind RET, briefly summarizes the evidence for patient outcomes, and provides active links to online resources.  The benefits of the treatment are understood in the context of scientific evidence, clinical expertise, and patient perspective. The bibliography and website links are a helpful starting point for anyone who wants to further explore the method and science of RET.



This short and quick read provides a step-by-step guide to implementing RAP.  Cues and supports are described as well as a variation of RAP for use with Spanish speaking clients.  A brief summary of the theory and limited evidence-base behind RAP are describe. A bibliography with active links to available research articles and web resources means readers can easily explore the science and method of RAP.


Stimuli are not provided but links to picture sets available online will speed up treatment planning.



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Whether Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) is a new-to-you treatment or one you have been using for years, this guide will help you be consistent and creative in the clinical use of this treatment for anomia.


This short and quick read provides a step-by-step guide to implementing the form of SFA describe by Coelho, Boyle, and colleagues that emphasizes the generation of features.  Variations of this method that appear in the literature are describe (including group treatment and extension to discourse), as well as tips for administering SFA. A brief summary of the theory and evidence behind SFA is provided. A bibliography with active links to available research articles, conference presentations, and web resources means readers can easily explore the science and method of SFA.


Stimuli are not provided but links to picture sets available online will speed up treatment planning.



Supplemental materials:

The Clinician's Guide to Semantic Feature Analysis for Aphasia

The Clinician's Guide to Reducing Aphasic perseveration

The Aphasia Series