Well-being is an important consideration for any professional (clinician or researcher)
working with people who have acquired communication difficulties. The role of well-being in …

Quality of life approach to aphasia Page 305 OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to: 1.
Understand what the qualityof-life approach in aphasia means. 2. Develop understanding …

This paper will introduce the construct of psychological well‐being and discuss its relevance
to speech and language therapy. Measures of psychological well‐being are used routinely …

Understanding and investigating the quality of life of people with communication disabilities
is particularly challenging, as few people beyond the person, his/her family, and the speech …

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 …

Although literature devoted to the measurement of quality of life has proliferated during the
past three decades, formal assessment of quality of life with aphasia is new (Worrall & …

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 …

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 …

Objective: To gain an insight into speech and language therapists' perspectives on and
practices in quality of life in aphasia. Participants and Methods: The International …

In aphasiology, there is little published research on what quality of life is like for people who
have aphasia. There are seminal papers on the consequences of aphasia on life that have …