Purpose: Best practices in the field of aphasia rehabilitation increasingly acknowledge a
whole-person approach that values interventions aimed at reducing impairments, while also …

Background: For many years, aphasia batteries have been widely used to assess language
difficulties associated with aphasia. Although many clinicians use aphasia batteries in their …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to identify outcome constructs that aphasia
researchers consider essential to measure in all aphasia treatment research. Method …

Background: The initial motivation was our inability to capture the important but often elusive
outcomes of interventions that focus on making a difference to the everyday experience of …

Background: Exploring the concept of living successfully with aphasia challenges
researchers and clinicians to identify positive rather than negative adaptive processes and …

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 …

There has been a marked increase in attention to the measurement of “outcomes” after
speech-language intervention for adult aphasia. Consumers, speech-language pathologists …

Background: An important goal of aphasia rehabilitation research is to examine the degree
to which outcome measures capture change in impairment, functional communication tasks …

This study investigated change in life participation in people with aphasia (PWA) before and
after a stroke from their perspectives. Language, cognitive, and communicative confidence …

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a newly initiated aphasia center program using
Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) values. Design Evidence-based practice …