Therapy: Verbal Feedback, Cueing, Etc.

Verbal feedback in therapy: Telling the patient "that's right," "you got it," or "that's correct" is great verbal feedback. Perfect feedback is: "That's right; it is a zebra!"

Rewording the stimulus is a helpful cue: Asking "if wood burns, what melts?" assists a patient to complete the verbal analogy "Burn is to wood as melt is to _________."

During a verbal fluency task, remain quiet while the patient is listing exemplars unless they pause, or deny ability to think of any more items.

During word retrieval tasks such as confrontational naming, should give a letter cue or phonemic cue prior to giving model.