Abstract The Assessment for Living with Aphasia (ALA) is a pictographic, self-report
measure of aphasia-related quality-of-life. Research was undertaken to assess test–re-test …

Abstract The Assessment for Living With Aphasia (ALA; Kagan et al., 2013) was developed
in order to address the need for a communicatively accessible aphasia-related quality of life …

Background: There are many validated and widely used assessments within aphasiology.
Few, however, describe language and life with aphasia from the perspective of the person …

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 …

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

Methods & Procedures: Quality of life was assessed for stroke patients with aphasia in
postacute and chronic stages by means of the Aachen Life Quality Inventory (ALQI), a …

Background: The use of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures is important for
understanding the impact of aphasia from the perspective of the person with aphasia …

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

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

The concept of living successfully with aphasia has recently emerged as an alternative to
more traditional “deficit” models in aphasiology, encouraging a focus on positive rather than …