What Is Mr. Schmidt's Therapy?

The first long-term goal that will be addressed in Mr. Schmidt's therapy is: Mr. Schmidt will increase expressive language skills in order to functionally communicate in a conversation for 5 minutes, given minimal cues. This goal was chosen because Mr. Schmidt displays non-fluent aphasia and it was stated in the discharge that he has moderate expressive language deficits. To accomplish this goal, I will use the therapy technique called, Treatment of Underlying Forms (TUF). This technique focuses on both comprehension and production, as it includes tasks establishing and improving knowledge of thematic role information about verb argument in active and declarative form sentences (Thompson & Shapiro, 2005). TUF's approach is that it acknowledges
We would begin at step one of understanding the underlying form. A picture would be placed on the table in front of Mr. Schmidt and he would answer the comprehension question about the picture. For example, we would begin therapy with the sample task, point to Pete saw the woman who the man kissed. If he answered it incorrectly, I would state the correct response and move to the next step. If Mr. Schmidt answers the question correctly we would move straight to step 2 of sentence production. During step 2, an object relative constriction is elicited using the sentence production priming task. If the production is not elicited, we would continue through the steps. The remaining steps of the approach are as follows: verb and verb argument comprehension, verb and verb argument production, object-relative clause formation, and then Mr. Schmidt will practice steps 4-6. The first short-term goal stated that: Mr. Schmidt will increase mean length of utterance (MLU) to 4-6 utterances with 85% accuracy given minimal cues in 3 out 4 trials. This goal is appropriate, as it is hoped that by going through the steps numerous times, he will be able to perform step 2 of sentence production. As the steps progress, Mr. Schmidt will be understanding the action, verb, and agents of the picture. Mr. Schmidt will be replacing, selecting and moving the associated cards to form a correct target construction. Therefore, the second short-term goal states that: Mr. Schmidt will independently combine at least 5 words appropriately (action-verb-agent) to form sentences and express them with 80% accuracy in 4 out of 5 trials. As Mr. Schmidt becomes familiar with replacing, selecting and moving the cards to form various new sentences, it is hoped that he will eventually perform this independently and express them, as he has increased his mean length of utterance. In conclusion, this technique will help achieve Mr. Schmidt's