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 …

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: In recent years, quality of life measures have been used increasingly to
evaluate the effectiveness of services or interventions. For people with chronic disabilities …

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

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. To examine the quality of life (QoL) of people with aphasia and to study the
influence of variables such as age, time post onset and (degree of) social support on the …

Background: There is an increasing need in speech and language therapy for clinicians to
provide intervention in the context of the broader life‐quality issues for people with aphasia …

Background Aphasia severity is known to affect quality of life (QoL) in stroke patients, as is
mood disorders, functional limitations, limitations on activities of daily life, economic status …

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 …

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 …