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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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: The impact of change in communication, life participation, and psychological
well‐being in aphasia is recognised but still not fully explored. Further, considerable scope …

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 …