Background: Research into the practices of speech–language therapists in clinical sessions
is beginning to identify the way communication in clinical interactions both facilitates and …

Conversation partners of individuals with aphasia, including health care professionals,
families, and others, play a role that is as important for communication as the language …

Background: Communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are difficult to modify
due to the cognitive limitation imposed by frontal lobe damage. As an alternative approach …

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

A sociolinguistic analysis of an interaction between a woman with aphasia and a
nonaphasic speaking partner was conducted to investigate participant framing in aphasia …

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

This paper discusses a recent development in aphasia treatment, termed the Life
Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)(Chapey et al., 2001). LPAA is a model of aphasia …

Threats and Worrall are to be applauded for their proactive article on the World Health
Organization ICF (WHO, 2001). They clearly describe the ICF and outline the positives …

Clinicians following develop-ments in the field of aphasiology over the last decade have
become increasingly aware of therapy ap-proaches that go beyond remediation of language …

The present study examined the relationship between changes in comprehensibility and
changes in intelligibility over time, for an individual with dysarthria. Intelligibility has been the …