Navigating Aphasia
eBook - ePub

Navigating Aphasia

100 Useful Points for Speech and Language Therapists

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Navigating Aphasia

100 Useful Points for Speech and Language Therapists

About this book

Navigating Aphasia provides the reader with a starting point for working with people with aphasia; presenting key, practical points to consider in the clinical management of this client group.

With a focus on both the language impairment and the consequences of aphasia, this book is packed with easily accessible, applied advice about assessment and therapy from an experienced aphasia clinician. Key sections include:

• Understanding aphasia

• Clinical management

• Assessment

• Approaches to therapy

• Language and cognition

• Living with aphasia.

Concluding with an appendix featuring useful books, websites and professional organisations, this is an essential, practical and comprehensive guide for newly qualified and student speech and language therapists, as well as those new to the world of aphasia.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040349700
Edition
0
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Audiology & Speech Pathology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. INTRODUCTION
  10. Chapter 1 CAUSES OF APHASIA
  11. Chapter 2 APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING APHASIA
  12. Chapter 3 APHASIA MANAGEMENT
  13. Chapter 4 ASSESSMENT
  14. Chapter 5 APHASIA AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS
  15. Chapter 6 CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS: ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
  16. Chapter 7 TREATMENTS
  17. Chapter 8 THE THERAPIST, THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP AND DIFFERENT ROLES
  18. Chapter 9 THERAPY
  19. Chapter 10 LIVING WITH APHASIA
  20. Appendix 1: Framework for outcome measurement (a-from) diagram
  21. Appendix 2: Language-processing model
  22. Appendix 3: The top ten: best practice recommendations for aphasia (aphasia united “top 10”): international best practice recommendations for aphasia
  23. Appendix 4: Some assessments
  24. Appendix 5: Useful resources, links and websites
  25. Glossary
  26. Index