The ending of therapy is a crucial time for speech-language pathologists and can impact on
their sense of achievement and satisfaction. Drawing on literature from psychotherapy …

The ultimate goal of phonological intervention is to make unintelligible speech intelligible.
Discharging children who have achieved this goal can be a rewarding experience …

Despite a considerable literature on assessment and treatment issues in aphasiology, little
has been written about how therapy ends. We lack detail about how clinicians decide to …

This paper, drawn from a study into experiences of treatment termination in chronic aphasia,
discusses why communication, between speech-language pathologists and clients with …

Background: Although the concept of weaning clients from therapy is clinically familiar, it is
not an area of practice that has ever been systematically investigated or rendered explicit …

Background: The aphasiology literature contains very little on how therapy ends. However,
the events surrounding discharge are complex and are an integral part of therapy as a …

As a clinician practising in the early 1980s through the very early 1990s I remember with
some nostalgia the discharge dilemmas that Hersh describes. During this time period I could …

The affective components that arise as speech-language pathologists (SLPs) interact with
the clients they serve and how these factors impact the process of ending therapy and SLPs' …

Background: Discharging clients with long-term aphasia from therapy services constitutes a
challenging dilemma for practising clinicians for a multitude of reasons. Although discharge …

Several years ago I was in a fairly typical situation for a clinician working with a large
outpatient caseload of clients with aphasia. Some of these clients had been receiving …