Overview

The Aphasia Therapy Files represent a practical resource for people who work with individuals with aphasia, either as therapists or as researchers. Rather than focusing on theoretical issues underlying the impairment or disability, the focus in the studies is on the practicalities of determining, designing and implementing the therapies. However, each section is introduced by an overview, which relates the studies to current theoretical thinking and other relevant studies in the published literature. The Files provide a rich source not only of ideas about what to do in therapy for this complex condition, but also of insights into the way that therapists try to determine what the focus of therapy should be. The second volume provides a further extensive set of studies about doing therapy. These studies also cover a wider range of issues than the first volume. In the first section, the studies relate to therapies that aim to assist people in learning to live with aphasia. These studies tackle the complexities of making that transition and finding a new identity as a person with aphasia. In the second section therapies for specific aspects of the language impairment in aphasia are described in detail. Some of the studies also examine the relationship between these two different aspects of therapy - working on the impairment and addressing life issues. The majority of the studies have been written by speech and language therapists working in clinical practice, often in collaboration with research therapists. The studies largely reflect the realities of everyday practice and will appeal to therapists and students as well as researchers in aphasiology.

Full Product Details

Author:   Sally Byng ,  Judith Felson Duchan ,  Carole Pound
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9781841692708

ISBN 10:   1841692700
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   30 November 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

S. Byng, J. Duchan, Describing Therapies for Aphasia. D. Cairns, Controlling Language and Life: Therapy for Communication and Identity in a Bilingual Speaker. C. Gatehouse, L. Clark, Re-Assembling Language and Identity: A Longitudinal Programme Involving Psycholinguistic and Social Approaches in the Life of a Young Man with Aphasia. D. Graham, Beyond the Simple Sentence Level: A Case Study of a Client with High Level Aphasia. J. Hickin, R. Herbert, W. Best, D. Howard, F. Osborne, Lexical and Functionally Based Treatment: Effects on Word Retrieval and Conversation. S. Mcvicker, L. Winstanley, A Group Approach to the Long-Term Rehabilitation of People with Acquired Head Injury within the Community. A. Montagu, J. Marshall, What’s in a Name? Improving Proper Name Retrieval through Therapy. L. Perkins, F. Hinshelwood, Symptom-Based Versus Theoretically Motivated Therapy for Anomia: A Case Study. C. Pound, Therapy for Life: Challenging the Boundaries of Aphasia Therapy. J. Robson, S. Horton, Replicating Therapy - More than Just More of the Same? C. Sacchett, J. Lindsay, Revealing Competence and Rethinking Identity in Severe Aphasia using Drawing and a Communication Book. S. Simpson, Respecting the Rights of a Person with Aphasia to Follow His Own Life Choices: A Longitudinal Therapy Study. A. Stirling, A Case Study of a Client with Mild Language Problems. J. Webster, A. Whitworth, Al: Accessing the Predicate Argument Structure. S. Byng, J. Duchan, A Framework for Describing Therapies and Discovering their Whys and Wherefores.

Reviews

Another excellent volume in what will hopefully be an ongoing series related to clinical aphasiology, the book presents an eclectic mix of aphasia treatment programs, with an over-arching and obvious interest in matching treatments to the individual needs of people with aphasia. The case based nature of the content provides a rare perspective in an aphasia text. It is informative and current, utilizing both impairment and social approaches to aphasia therapy. - Elizabeth Armstrong, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University

Another excellent volume in what will hopefully be an ongoing series related to clinical aphasiology, the book presents an eclectic mix of aphasia treatment programs, with an over-arching and obvious interest in matching treatments to the individual needs of people with aphasia. The case based nature of the content provides a rare perspective in an aphasia text. It is informative and current, utilizing both impairment and social approaches to aphasia therapy. - Elizabeth Armstrong, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University Another excellent volume in what will hopefully be an ongoing series related to clinical aphasiology, the book presents an eclectic mix of aphasia treatment programs, with an over-arching and obvious interest in matching treatments to the individual needs of people with aphasia. The case-based nature of the content provides a rare perspective in an aphasia text. It is informative and current, utilizing both impairment and social approaches to aphasia therapy. - Elizabeth Armstrong, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University

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