Phonological Treatment for Anomia: A Scoping Review

Purpose: The aim of this scoping review was to summarize treatment charteristics (with a focus on treatment ingredients), participant demographic chaacteristics, and outcomes in the research literature for phonological treatmefor anomia. Method: Relevant articles reporting on phonological treatment for anomia acquired aphasia were identified by a librarian through a comprehensive datbase search as well as citation chasing of five articles. Title and abstrscreening, full-text screening, and data extraction related to the research quetions were completed in Covidence by two researchers. Results: A total of 110 articles reporting 152 treatment conditions met incluscriteria for the study. Treatment conditions generally included relatively smsample sizes of individuals with chronic poststroke aphasia. Treatment condtions were categorized into five broad categories: cueing (i.e., direct phonolgical cueing), phonological components analysis, contextual priming (i.e., indrect phonological cueing), phonomotor treatment, and other phonological processing approaches (i.e., other types of phonological treatment targeting undelying phonological skills). These treatment categories used a variety of overlaping treatment ingredients. Outcomes were generally positive for naming trained items with variability for generalization to untrained items and limitreporting of non–impairment-based measures (e.g., functional communication, quality of life). Conclusion: Further review and meta-analysis as well as prospective intervetion research for phonological treatment for anomia is needed to identify wmay benefit most from phonological treatment for anomia and to determioptimal treatment design parameters.