Background: Speech pathologists infrequently address the quality of aphasic people's lives
in a direct manner in rehabilitation, most likely due to the difficulty in grasping the role of …

Cognitive impairment is an important target for rehabilitation as it is common following
stroke, is associated with reduced quality of life and interferes with motor and other types of …

Background: Little is known about the way people with aphasia perceive their social
participation and its influencing factors. Aims: To explore how people with aphasia perceive …

Background: People with aphasia are at high risk of depression with the majority fulfilling
depression diagnostic criteria up to one year post-stroke. There is a lack of psychological …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

The concept of living successfully with aphasia has recently emerged as an alternative to
more traditional “deficit” models in aphasiology, encouraging a focus on positive rather than …

Specialists in communication disorders who work with individuals who have traumatic brain
injury (TBI) often focus their rehabilitative efforts on the cognitive, social, and behavioral …

The aim of this article is to describe aphasia using the framework provided by the World
Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) …

BACKGROUND: Communication supports, referred to as augmentative and alternative
communication (AAC), are an integral part of medical speech-language pathology practice …

Purpose In this article, the authors encapsulate discussions of the Language Work Group
that took place as part of the Workshop in Plasticity/NeuroRehabilitation Research at the …