摘要：Many aphasic patients have dificulties with the use of syntax to decode messages. Most patients do not have
specife deficits alecting syntactic operations or parsing/interpretive operations (Caplan & W aters, 2006; Caplan et
al., 2006, 2007; Dede & Caplan, 2006). This view of syntactic comprehension deficits is more optimistic about
generalization of successful training fom one structure to another. Therefore, if thenpy impacts the ability to
utilize resources to subserve syntactic comprehension, successful training might generalize to all structures or to
structures that require the same or Ewer resources. w e have developed two new treatments, one based on sentence
to picture matching (SPM) and the other based on object manipulation (OM)， that train patients on the
relationship between syntactic structure and the meanings of sentences.
