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Walsh, Irene P.; Delmar, Patricia; Jagoe, Caroline – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
This article focuses on a narrative account of a therapeutic journey experienced by 2 of the authors: an individual (P.D.) with a diagnosis in adulthood of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a speech-language pathologist/researcher (I.W.). Instead of adopting a traditional expert clinician treating an impaired patient stance in a highly formalized…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Patients, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Isaki, Emi; Brown, Betty G.; Alemán, Sara; Hackstaff, Karla – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This exploratory qualitative study investigated the use of therapeutic writing for counseling long-term caregivers of spouses with brain injury and neurogenic communication disorders. Three participants wrote an average of six single-spaced pages of text. After analysis of the written text, the common themes of onset of diagnosis, anger, grief,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Caregivers, Spouses, Brain