3.2.3 Home Practice Guides: Treatment of Underlying Forms (TUF)
This advanced guide outlines Treatment of Underlying Forms (TUF), a linguistic approach that uses visual aids like word cards to teach patients how to move and combine sentence components, ultimately helping them produce more grammatically correct and complex sentences.
Suitable For
- Individuals with Broca’s or agrammatic aphasia.
- Patients with mild to moderate aphasia who have specific sentence structure difficulties.
Objectives
- To train the brain to relearn the rules for constructing complex sentences.
- To improve the production and comprehension of complex syntactic structures.
- To promote generalization of learned sentence rules to untrained sentences.
Description
This advanced guide outlines Treatment of Underlying Forms (TUF), a linguistic approach that uses visual aids like word cards to teach patients how to move and combine sentence components, ultimately helping them produce more grammatically correct and complex sentences.