Thank you for your interest in Phonomotor Therapy!

Click here to access the Phonomotor Therapy Treatment Manual. This document contains theoretical and practical information about PMT, as well as links to demonstration videos and all of the visual materials needed to implement the treatment (see the manual for information about additional materials that are needed).

Click here to access the Standardized Assessment for Phonology in Aphasia. This test provides a measure of phonological processing skills for people with aphasia. It may be used for diagnosis as well as for treatment planning and documentation of change over time.

The following papers (in chronological order) provide background and evidence that surrounding the use of Phonomotor Therapy for both aphasia and apraxia of speech:

1) Kendall, D. L., Rodriguez, A. D., Rosenbek, J. C., Conway, T., & Gonzalez Rothi, L. J. (2006). Influence of intensive phonomotor rehabilitation

on apraxia of speech. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 43(3), 409-418. https://doi.org/10.1682/jrrd.2005.11.0175

2) Kendall, D., Rosenbek, J. C., Heilman, K. M., Conway, T., Klenberg, K., Gonzalez Rothi, L. J., & Nadeau, S. E. (2008). Phoneme-based

rehabilitation of anomia in aphasia. Brain and Language, 105(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.007

3) Kendall, D., Hunting Pompon, R., Brookshire, C. E., Minkina, I., & Bislick, L. (2013). An analysis of aphasic naming errors as an indicator of

improved linguistic processing following phonomotor treatment. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(2), S240-249.

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2012/12-0078)

4) Bislick, L. P., Oelke, M., & Kendall, D. (2014). Phonomotor Rehabilitation of Apraxia of Speech. Journal of Medical Speech-Language

Pathology, 21(1), 15-31.

5) Brookshire, C. E., Conway, T., Pompon, R. H., Oelke, M., & Kendall, D. L. (2014). Effects of intensive phonomotor treatment on reading in

eight individuals with aphasia and phonological alexia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 23(2), S300-311.

https://doi.org/10.1044/2014_AJSLP-13-0083

6) Kendall, D., Oelke, M., Brookshire, C. E., & Nadeau, S. E. (2015). The influence of Phonomotor Treatment on word retrieval abilities in 26

individuals with chronic aphasia: An open trial. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 58, 798-812.

https://doi.org/10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0131

7) Kendall, D. L., & Nadeau, S. E. (2016). The Phonomotor Approach to Treating Phonological-Based Language Deficits in People With

Aphasia. Topics in Language Disorders, 36(2), 109-122. https://doi.org/10.1097/Tld.0000000000000085

8) Minkina, I., Oelke, M., Bislick, L. P., Brookshire, C. E., Pompon, R. H., Silkes, J. P., & Kendall, D. L. (2016). An investigation of aphasic naming

error evolution following phonomotor treatment. Aphasiology, 30, 962-980. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2015.1081139

9) Hunting Pompon, R., Bislick, L., Elliott, K., Madden, E. B., Minkina, I., Oelke, M., & Kendall, D. (2017). Influence of Linguistic and

Nonlinguistic Variables on Generalization and Maintenance Following Phonomotor Treatment for Aphasia. American Journal of Speech

Language Pathology, 26(4), 1092-1104. https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_Ajslp-16-0175

10) Madden, E. B., Robinson, R. M., & Kendall, D. L. (2017). Phonological Treatment Approaches for Spoken Word Production in Aphasia.

Seminars in Speech and Language, 38(1), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1597258

11) Silkes, J. P., Fergadiotis, G., Hunting Pompon, R., Torrence, J., & Kendall, D. L. (2018). Effects of phonomotor treatment on discourse

production. Aphasiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2018.1512080

12) Kendall, D., Moldestad, M., Allen, W., Torrence, J., & Nadeau, S. (2019). Phonomotor versus Semantic Feature Analysis treatment for

anomia in 58 persons with aphasia: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 4464-4482.

https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-18-0257

13) Zimmerman, R. M., Silkes, J. P., Kendall, D. L., & Minkina, I. (2019). The Link Between Verbal Short-Term Memory and Anomia Treatment

Gains. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 28(3), 1039-1052. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_Ajslp-18-0176

14) Lai, W. V., Silkes, J. P., Minkina, I., & Kendall, D. L. (2019). Generalisation and maintenance across word classes: comparing the efficacy of

two anomia treatments in improving verb naming. Aphasiology, 33, 803-820. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1587376

15) Minkina, I., Silkes, J. P., Bislick, L., Brookshire Madden, E., Lai, V., Hunting Pompon, R., Torrence, J., Zimmerman, R., & Kendall, D. (2019).

The influence of Phonomotor Treatment on word retrieval: Insights from naming errors. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing

Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-L-19-0014

16) Bislick, L. (2020). A Phonomotor Approach to Apraxia of Speech Treatment. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 29(4),

2109- 2130. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00116

17) Madden, E. B., Torrence, J., & Kendall, D. L. (2020). Cross-modal generalization of anomia treatment to reading in aphasia.

Aphasiology, 35(7), 875–899. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2020.1734529

18) Silkes, J. P., Fergadiotis, G., Graue, K., & Kendall, D. L. (2021). Effects of Phonomotor Therapy and Semantic Feature Analysis on Discourse

Production. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00111

19) Castro, N., Nadeau, S. E., & Kendall, D. L. (2022). The Challenge of Achieving Greater Generalization in Phonological Treatment of

Aphasia. Aphasiology, 36(2), 170-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2020.1856327

If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Diane Kendall at dkendall@uw.edu or Dr. JoAnn Silkes, at jsilkes@sdsu.edu.