Conventional language therapy was a syndrome-specific standard approach widely used in Germany including components of wellestablished treatment methods.15,16 The therapeutic repertoire ranged
from exercises involving naming, repetition, sentence completion, following instructions, and conversations on topics of the patients’ own choice. Communicative methods were also included, but this was not the major focus of the treatment. Therapy was administered for 3 to 5 weeks, resulting in a total of 20 to 54 hours (mean, 33.9).