Navigating Aphasia : 100 Useful Points for Speech and Language Therapists

Navigating Aphasia provides the reader with a starting point for working with people with aphasia; presenting key, practical points to consider in the clinical management of this client group.

With a focus on both the language impairment and the consequences of aphasia, this book is packed with easily accessible, applied advice about assessment and therapy from an experienced aphasia clinician. Key sections include:

• Understanding aphasia

• Clinical management

• Assessment

• Approaches to therapy

• Language and cognition

• Living with aphasia.

Concluding with an appendix featuring useful books, websites and professional organisations, this is an essential, practical and comprehensive guide for newly qualified and student speech and language therapists, as well as those new to the world of aphasia.

Tessa Ackerman is a speech and language therapist with over 30 years clinical experience working with adults with aphasia and other acquired disorders of communication. She studied at the University of Leeds, Leeds Polytechnic and the University of York, including postgraduate research on perseveration in aphasia. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate speech and language therapy students in hospitals, clinics and at universities in the UK. She worked for the NHS for 21 years, including leading a rehabilitation team. For the past 14 years she has worked as an independent speech and language therapist and director of ACT for Yorkshire Ltd. and continues to work with people with aphasia.