3.2.4 Home Practice Guides: Response Elaboration Training (RET)
This guide details Response Elaboration Training (RET), a positive and encouraging therapy technique. Caregivers learn to use wh-questions to help patients build upon their short responses, gradually forming longer, more detailed, and meaningful sentences.
Suitable For
- Individuals with mild to moderate aphasia
- Patients who can produce single words or short phrases but struggle with complete sentences
Objectives
- To expand the length and content of spontaneous utterances.
- To use open-ended questions and positive reinforcement to elicit more language.
- To increase the informativeness and detail of conversational speech.
Description
This guide details Response Elaboration Training (RET), a positive and encouraging therapy technique. Caregivers learn to use wh-questions to help patients build upon their short responses, gradually forming longer, more detailed, and meaningful sentences.