Background Persons with aphasia (PWA) experience a number of communicative and social‐
emotional challenges. Reported experiences of PWA include but are not limited to, being …

Aphasia, most often caused by brain damage due to stroke, is a language disorder
hindering one's ability to verbally express and/or comprehend language, ranging in severity …

Individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and their caregivers are at risk for
decreased quality of life (QoL) due to their progressive condition. Aphasia camps are an …

Background Although spoken discourse is an outcome prioritised by all stakeholders in
aphasia rehabilitation, assessment and treatment of discourse are not routine clinical …

We describe the impacts that weekly drama sessions had on three speakers with aphasia
who participated in a 16-week program to create and perform a 'devised play'about their …

ABSTRACT Background: Community aphasia groups (CAGs) are argued to have various
benefits for people with chronic aphasia. However, there is a paucity of evidence regarding …

This Perspectives forum on the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA) is especially
timely as it is now 20 years since its initial publication in the ASHA Leader (Chapey et al …

Background: Approximately 176,000 new individuals in the United Kingdom and Ireland are
diagnosed with stroke annually with up to one third experiencing aphasia. Qualitative …

While most aphasia treatment aims to restore linguistic processes or train compensatory
strategies within a clinical context, supported conversation for adults with aphasia (SCA) …

This paper discusses a recent development in aphasia treatment, termed the Life
Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)(Chapey et al., 2001). LPAA is a model of aphasia …