Chief of Aphasiology: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal has been his consistent
advocacy of psychosocial issues and social models of aphasia treatment. This chapter is …

Background: Families living with aphasia often have unmet needs despite intervention
provided in hospital and rehabilitation environments (Denman, 1998; Michallet, Le Dorze, & …

This book focuses explicitly on therapeutic techniques developed from a social model
approach to disability and learning to live with difference. It describes theories, activities and …

'This book is a wonderful idea and it meets a heretofore unmet need. It derives from a
particularly interesting database, since it deals with aphasia in aphasic people's own …

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 …

Background: Increasingly there is a call from clinicians and researchers for measures that
document the impact of aphasia on a person's everyday communication. Do existing …

This chapter presents a therapeutic gestalt. The journey it chronicles, though, is linear in
time. It highlights what I have learned as a clinician and clinical researcher over thirty-some …

Patient-centered care is extending the sphere of health care beyond the patient, focusing
attention upon the family caregiver (s). In this context, patient–family relationships are at the …

Conversation partners of individuals with aphasia, including health care professionals,
families, and others, play a role that is as important for communication as the language …

Background: Current interventions for addressing the psychosocial consequences of
aphasia have been based on professionally driven constructs as opposed to insider …