Background: Nursing home residents with aphasia often experience social isolation.
Providing trained conversation partners is one way to combat this problem, but evidence is …

Background: Conversational training programmes are increasingly being reported for
partners of people with aphasia. The approach, formats used and ways in which these …

Research indicates that communication between patients with communication disorders and
their health care providers may be compromised, which leads to adverse outcomes and …

Introduction. Thousands of individuals with communication disorders live in long‐term
residential care. Nursing staff are often their primary communication partners. The positive …

This article reports the development and evaluation of a new intervention termed" Supported
Conversation for Adults with Aphasia"(SCA). The approach is based on the idea that the …

Background: Community aphasia groups are recognized as an area of need and value for
people with chronic aphasia and their significant others. However, our understanding of …

While most aphasia treatment aims to restore linguistic processes or train compensatory
strategies within a clinical context, supported conversation for adults with aphasia (SCA) …

Background: Difficulty in communicating (due to aphasia) can have serious consequences
for patients in health care settings. Communication Partner Training is effective for improving …

Background: The investigation into conversational interaction in aphasia and its therapeutic
implications has received much interest. It is increasingly accepted that people with aphasia …

Background: Families living with aphasia often have unmet needs despite intervention
provided in hospital and rehabilitation environments (Denman, 1998; Michallet, Le Dorze, & …