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T1 Language and communication rehabilitation in patients with schizophrenia: A narrative review
A1 Jimeno, Natalia
K1 psiquiatría
K1 schizophrenia
K1 speech-language pathology
K1 psychiatric rehabilitation
AB Language impairments often appear in patients with schizophrenia and are potential targets forrehabilitation. Clinical practice and research should be intimately connected. The aim was toperform a narrative review of the assessment and intervention tools that have been used for therehabilitation of schizophrenia patients with language and communication impairments. Twotypes of tools, general and specific, were developed for both purposes. General tools include thePositive and Negative Syndrome Scale for assessment, and the Integrated Psychological Therapyfor intervention. The specific tools used to evaluate language and communication impairmentsinclude the Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication, the FormalThought Disorder scales (for caregivers and patients), and the Thought and Language Disorderscale. The most recent language-specific intervention tools include the Cognitive PragmaticTreatment, Conecta-2, Let’s talk! Multimodal Speech-Gesture training, Speech Therapy InterventionGroup, and PragmaCom. These tools primarily involve psychopathology/psychiatry,psychology, linguistics, speech and language therapy, and nursing. In conclusion, a wide range ofassessment and intervention tools are available for the rehabilitation of language and communicationimpairments associated with schizophrenia. An integrative and interdisciplinaryapproach should always be considered for rehabilitation of language and communication in patientswith schizophrenia throughout their lifetime.
SN 2405-8440
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/77996
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/77996
LA eng
NO Heliyon enero 2024, 10, 2, e24897.
DS UVaDOC
RD 10-oct-2025