Talking About Aphasia - Softcover

Susie Parr; Sally Byng; Sue Gilpin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335199364 ISBN 13: 9780335199365

Publisher: Open University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Aphasia is a language impairment which can result from a stroke. This volume draws on in-depth interviews with aphasic people to explore the experience of aphasia from the onset of stroke and loss of language to the gradual revelation of its long-term consequences. The interviewees describe the impact of aphasia on their employment, education, leisure activities, finances, personal relationships and identity. They also describe their changing needs and how well these have been met by health, social care and other services as well as the barriers they have encountered in everyday life.

About this title

About the Author:

Susie Parr and Sally Byng are speech and language therapists who have worked both clinically and in research with aphasic people. Sue Gilpin and Chris Ireland both trained and worked as teachers. Both had strokes which left them with aphasia.

Review:

"This little jewel of a book should be essential reading for all professional and voluntary staff whose work brings them into contact with people with aphasia." - Therapy Weekly "Having now read the book three times I can find no adverse comment to make. It is a most interesting, up-to-date account of the experience of people with aphasia and how they can be helped towards recovery. It will surprise me if this book doesn't find its way to shelves ofall who work in the interest of people who have survived a stroke." - RCSLT Bulletin "This book is a wonderful idea and it meets a heretofore unmet need. It derives from a particularlyinteresting database, since it deals with aphasia in aphasic people'sown language...It is strongly recommended." - Professor Audrey Holland, Department of Speech Pathology, University of Arizona, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0335199364
• ISBN 13: 9780335199365
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160