TY - JOUR AU - Ruiter, Marina B. AU - Rietveld, Toni C.M. AU - Hoskam, Vera AU - van Beers, Marijn M.A. PY - 2016/07/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Exploratory Investigation of e-REST: Teletherapy for Chronically Agrammatic Speakers JF - International Journal of Telerehabilitation JA - Int J Telerehab VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Intervention DO - 10.5195/ijt.2016.6191 UR - http://telerehab.pitt.edu/ojs/Telerehab/article/view/6191 SP - 21-28 AB - <p class="AbstractBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">Delivering aphasia therapy via telecommunication may provide a means to deliver intensive therapy in a cost-effective way<em>. </em>Teletherapy, remotely-administered (language) treatment, may support the repetitive drill practices that people with chronic aphasia need to perform when learning to compensate for their lasting language difficulties. The use of teletherapy may allow speech and language pathologists (SLPs) to focus in-person sessions more strongly on the generalisation of therapy effects to daily life. This single subject study is an investigation whether a teletherapy application called e-REST meets the criteria of accessibility, user-friendliness, as well as effectiveness. e-REST, the teletherapy version of the Dutch and adapted Reduced Syntax Therapy, teaches chronically aphasic speakers of Dutch who experience difficulties in sentence production to convey their messages in a kind of telegraphic style. The results obtained suggest that it is reasonable to conduct a larger study into the user-friendliness, accessibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of e-REST.</span>   </p> ER -