Background: Although aphasia affects quality of life (QoL), the impact within specific
domains (eg, psychosocial, communication) is poorly understood. Moreover, the complex …

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 …

Assessing health related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with communication disabilities is
a challenge in health related research. Materials used to assess HRQOL are often …

Background: Although the social approach to managing aphasia is designed to improve the
quality of life (QOL) of the aphasic person, the influence of being aphasic on different facets …

Quality of life (QOL) assessment for people with aphasia has been limited by many
difficulties. Possibly the most important issue is altered language comprehension ability …

Background: Health‐related quality of life (HRQL) measures are increasingly used to help
us understand the impact of disease or disability on a person's life and to measure the …

Background: A growing consensus among speech-language pathologists that treatment
goals should be significant to the consumer and society has spurred clinicians to address …

Background: Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) scales is
useful as it allows comparisons of therapy outcomes across different countries to be drawn …

It is increasingly important that clinicians address the health-related quality of life (HRQOL)
of adults with communication disorders in clinical practice. The overall aim of this paper is to …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to adapt the stroke and aphasia quality-of-life scale-39
(SAQoL-39) to the Turkish language and carry out a reliability and validity study of the …