| Individuals with aphasia often encounter word finding difficulties, presenting a challenging barrier to participation in communicative activities. Semantic feature analysis (SFA) is a specific treatment for such difficulties. The purpose of this study was to examine whether using SFA to train naming of atypical category exemplars would generalize to naming of typical category exemplars, and whether naming generalized to natural discourse. A single participant, multiple baselines across behaviors design (naming of typical and atypical items and generalization to discourse) was used for data collection. The results of this study revealed that use of atypical stimuli in SFA does increase generalization of naming to untrained targets, with inconsistent maintenance of generalization. Generalization of naming to natural discourse was not shown; however, Correct Information Unit (CIU) analysis revealed increased use of descriptive phrases more specific to targets trained. |
