This issue of Perspectives is devoted to attention in aphasia. Included is a theoretical rationale for addressing attention deficits in patients with aphasia, suggestions of valid procedures for assessing attention-language–impaired persons, and two examples of attention treatment methods that resulted in improved language/communication performances in people with aphasia (PWA).

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• summarize current views on attention mechanisms, the types of attention, the neuroscience of attention, and its presumed role in language processing
• describe assessment tools that are available help in determining the extent to which types of attention are affected in PWA
• discuss linguistic approaches and attention training to remediating auditory comprehension, and evidence that overall cognitive status significantly influences response to aphasia treatment
• describe a current project at the University of Colorado to improve conversational success in PWA through training their attention on simple non-linguistic computer tasks

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