Comparing Reminiscence Therapy And Other Verbal...

1. Outline the purpose of the study †¢ The study compares reminiscence therapy with every day communication to determine if the reminiscence therapy was effective. 2. How does the study apply to communication disorders? †¢ The study applies to communication disorders by the assessment of communication, increase vocabulary and conversation with the intervention of reminiscence therapy. 1. Describe the justification for the study. What does the study add to the literature? Is this the first study of its kind or is it an adaptation of previous studies? †¢ This study is an adaptation of prior studies. Previous studies did not use a control group. This study wants to compare reminiscence therapy and everyday conversation. Everyday conversation being the control group for this study. †¢ Prior research has been done on reminiscence therapy and has assessed the usefulness by analyzing memories recalled, cognition functions and the ability to perform every day activities. †¢ Prior research didn’t establish variables and didn’t clarify the difference between reminiscence therapy and other verbal interventions. This study plans on clarifying these items. 1. Describe the study design (is it correlational, experimental, survey research, etc.). †¢ The study design would be experimental. Experimental is when treatment or intervention has been given to subjects with the intention of determining if the treatment or intervention was valuable. 2. How did you determine which design