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The Identify picture rhymes task within Constant Therapy is an effective way to work on naming skills. This exercise helps people with cognitive, speech, or language disorders – especially semantic paraphasias and phonological paraphasias – improve reading and word retrieval by determining if the displayed image rhymes with a written word. Below, we explain why and how it works.
When clinicians think about naming errors in aphasia (which we call “paraphasias”), we think about two types: semantic paraphasias and phonological paraphasias.
Semantic paraphasias occur when someone provides a word that is related to the target word (the word they were looking for) in meaning. For example, people often provide words that are in the same category as the word they were looking for, like saying “couch” instead of “table” (both of these are furniture).
The other type of naming error we see is phonological paraphasia. This occurs when someone produces a word that is similar to the target word in the way it sounds, so they might say “prefect” instead of “perfect”, or “towel” instead of “toast”. Luckily, rhyming tasks can help!
In the Identify pictures rhymes task in Constant Therapy, you are shown a picture and asked whether the name of that picture rhymes with a spoken word (it’s also written). If you’re stuck and can’t think of the name of the image in the picture, you can click a cue button to hear it. By answering these yes/no questions, you’re not only working on naming by trying to think of the name of the picture, but also helping to solidify what both words sound like and whether they rhyme or not.
The other cool thing about rhyming is that it’s actually a really important pre-literacy skill for children learning to read. If there are kids or grandkids around while doing the rhyming tasks, have them do it with you! Or, if you’re a clinician in a school, you can use this task to work on rhyming as a pre-literacy skill! Hard to say no to such a versatile task!
As usual, don’t just take our word for it. Here are a few studies that prove just how effective rhyming can be for patients with aphasia working on their naming skills:
As always, thank you to all of the phenomenal researchers out there who enable us to provide Constant Therapy users with research-based, effective tasks that will put you on your road to improvement.