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Direct linkAnnette Rotherham; Kirstine Shrubsole; Claire Croteau; Katerina Hilari; Helen Wallace; Sarah J. Wallace – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Aphasia impacts communication and relationships. While counselling is increasingly recognised as a component of the speech-language therapy role, the success of conversation partner training is typically measured in terms of communication alone. This scoping review aimed to describe how successful conversation is currently measured…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Skills, Relationship, Disabilities
Douglas, Joanne T. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a rare neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by declining language ability. There is currently no way to reverse or slow the course of the progressive brain degeneration, nor is there a cure for PPA. Throughout the course of the disease, any treatment must therefore be palliative in nature…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Neurological Impairments, Diseases, Intervention
Brielle C. Stark; Sarah Grace Dalton – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: It is important to capture a comprehensive language profile from speakers with aphasia. One way to do this is to evaluate spoken discourse, which is language beyond a single simple clause used for a specific purpose. While the historical trend in aphasiology has been to capture performance during isolated language tasks, such as…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Proficiency, Transcripts (Written Records), Speech Skills
Lauren Hammond; Thomas Christensen; Julius Fridriksson; Dirk B. den Ouden – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: The communicative effectiveness of persons with aphasia (PWA) has been assessed through a range of functional communication measures. However, variability in interpretations of what is covered by the term "functional communication" may have resulted in challenges to the implementation of appropriate and consistent…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Skills, Patients, Medical Care Evaluation
Lara Laschi; Giada Bartolini; Francesca Dorgali; Laura Abbruzzese; Alessio Damora; Alessandra Stocchi; Maria Assunta Saieva; Fabio Ferretti; Lucia Ferroni; Benedetta Basagni; Pierluigi Zoccolotti; Costanza Papagno; Mauro Mancuso – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Caregivers of a person with aphasia (PWA) often lack knowledge about aphasia and have difficulty acting as effective conversation partners, feeling excluded and passive. Promoting the interlocutor's proficiency in the ability to support the PWA in a conversation is essential for improving patient-caregiver relationships. Aims: This…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Patients, Caregivers, Communication Skills
Naomi de Graff; Lindsey Thiel – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Conversation partner schemes for people with aphasia (PWA) can promote communication and quality of life as well as support skill development for students. Initial evidence indicates online conversation partner formats are acceptable as an alternative to in-person delivery. Aims: To evaluate the experiences of PWA of an online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Aphasia, Computer Mediated Communication
Brock, Kris L.; Koul, Rajinder; Corwin, Melinda; Schlosser, Ralf W. – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of interface display and respondent group on listener attitudes toward and perceived communicative competence of persons with aphasia. The Attitudes Toward Nonspeaking Persons scale and the Communicative Competence Scale was used to measure listener attitudes and communicative competence,…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Aphasia, Communication Skills, Program Effectiveness
Marina Charalambous; Phivos Phylactou; Marios Serafim; Pinelopi Vlotinou; Anastasios M. Georgiou; Eliada Pampoulou; Maria Papaioannou; Fotini Georgiou; Lakis Palazis – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Aphasia, a communication disorder mainly resulting from stroke, poses challenges to the meaningful interactions between healthcare professionals and people with aphasia (PWA). Little is known about the knowledge and skills of Cypriot healthcare professionals when interacting with PWA in clinical settings. This study explores the…
Descriptors: Patients, Aphasia, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Therapy
Download full textBackman, Ylva; Gardelli, Viktor; Parnes, Peter – Designs for Learning, 2022
In this paper, we describe technological advances for supporting persons with aphasia in philosophical dialogues about personally relevant and contestable questions. A computer game-based application for iPads is developed and researched through Living Lab inspired workshops in order to promote the target group's communicative participation during…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Computer Games, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
van Rijssen, Maren; Ketelaar, Marjolijn; Vandenborre, Dorien; Oostveen, Judith; Veldkamp, Marloes; van Ewijk, Lizet; Visser-Meily, Johanna M. A.; Gerrits, Ellen – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Communication between people with aphasia and their healthcare professionals (HCPs) can be greatly improved when HCPs are trained in using supportive conversation techniques and tools. Communication partner training (CPT) is an umbrella term that covers a range of interventions that train the conversation partners of people with…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Aphasia, Health Personnel, Training
Wallace, Sarah J.; Worrall, Linda; Rose, Tanya A.; Alyahya, Reem S. W.; Babbitt, Edna; Beeke, Suzanne; de Beer, Carola; Bose, Arpita; Bowen, Audrey; Brady, Marian C.; Breitenstein, Caterina; Bruehl, Stefanie; Bryant, Lucy; Cheng, Bonnie B. Y.; Cherney, Leora R.; Conroy, Paul; Copland, David A.; Croteau, Claire; Cruice, Madeline; Dipper, Lucy; Hilari, Katerina; Howe, Tami; Kelly, Helen; Kiran, Swathi; Laska, Ann-Charlotte; Marshall, Jane; Murray, Laura L.; Patterson, Janet; Pearl, Gill; Quinting, Jana; Rochon, Elizabeth; Rose, Miranda L.; Rubi-Fessen, Ilona; Sage, Karen; Simmons-Mackie, Nina; Visch-Brink, Evy; Volkmer, Anna; Webster, Janet; Whitworth, Anne; Le Dorze, Guylaine – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Evidence-based recommendations for a core outcome set (COS; minimum set of outcomes) for aphasia treatment research have been developed (the Research Outcome Measurement in Aphasia--ROMA, COS). Five recommended core outcome constructs: communication, language, quality of life, emotional well-being and patient-reported…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Aphasia, Foreign Countries
Barberis, Mara; Vandermosten, Maaike – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Aphasia can affect the communication between the person with aphasia (PWA) and the communication partner (CP). It is therefore necessary to support both the PWA and their CPs. Communication partner training (CPT) focuses on training communication between dyads of whom one person has aphasia. Although there is increasing evidence…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Skills, Skill Development, Training
Shrubsole, Kirstine; Power, Emma; Hallé, Marie-Christine – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Factors influencing the implementation of communication partner training (CPT) with familiar partners of people with aphasia (PWA) have previously been documented using disparate approaches. To date there has been no synthesis of these factors using a common theoretical framework. Investigating CPT implementation factors using a common…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Aphasia, Communication Disorders, Barriers
Groenewold, Rimke; Armstrong, Elizabeth – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Previous research has shown that speakers with aphasia rely on enactment more often than non-brain-damaged language users. Several studies have been conducted to explain this observed increase, demonstrating that spoken language containing enactment is easier to produce and is more engaging to the conversation partner. This paper…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Interpersonal Communication, Brain, Neurological Impairments
Flurie, Maurice; Ungrady, Molly; Reilly, Jamie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and the amnestic variant of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are neurodegenerative conditions characterized by a profound loss of functional communication abilities. Communicative impairment in AD and PPA is especially apparent in the domain of naming common objects and familiar faces. We evaluated the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Neurological Impairments, Alzheimers Disease, Communication Skills
