An oral sign which can make the patient produce the name of an object, of a picture or of an action. A phoneme, a pair or a string of phonemes, a string of words or a sentence which can make the patient produce (orthographically or orally) the name of an object, of a picture or of an action.
Rationale: It is sometimes difficult to establish outpatient treatment programs for patients geographically inaccessible or with transportation problems. Therapy can be administered by telephone. HELPSS is based on syntactic hierarchy of difficulty shown by agrammatic patients in controlled experiments. Related Issues: Therapies that are highly structured and which primarily use auditory input and verbal output appear to have potential in aphasia.