Navigating Aphasia by Ackerman, Tessa;

Short description:

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. 

Long description:

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.

"Navigating Aphasia is like having an expert clinical mentor sitting with you, guiding from each page about working empathically and holistically with people with aphasia and their families. Tessa Ackerman generously shares her deep clinical experience through this book. She has organised her “100 useful points” into 10 chapters addressing often asked questions about understanding, assessing and managing aphasia. She accompanies practical information with useful contemporary references, resources, links, and frameworks. There is much wisdom in this small book. If you buy a hard copy of anything, this is a good choice; keep it in your work bag and expect it to be well-thumbed and dog-eared before long." - Deborah Hersh, Professor of Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Australia.

"Part of Routledge's "Navigating Speech and Language Therapy" series, this guide is a practical handbook for students and newly qualified speech and language therapists working with people with aphasia. As well as covering the understanding of and approaches to assessment and management of aphasia, it offers straightforward tips and advice on developing rapport and framing key messages, for example about recovery. It succeeds in delivering a comprehensive yet concise and accessible basic guide to aphasia management, as well as demystifying how one deals with more challenging clinical scenarios. This book will prove an invaluable foundation for building clinical skills." - Louise Lander, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Moor Green Outpatient Brain Injury Unit, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

"Navigating Aphasia is a fantastic addition for newly qualified SLTs and SLT students. It provides an excellent reference tool for less experienced clinicians, enabling them to quickly find clear, succinct explanations for a wide range of clinical terms relevant to clinical practice in the field of aphasia. Readers will find the structure of the book useful; walking through various aspects of aphasia including assessment and management approaches as well as clinical and therapeutic skills, co-occurring communication and cognitive diagnoses as well as the impact of living with aphasia. Readers are helpfully signposted to a range of useful resources to further deepen their knowledge; overall an excellent resource for all new Speech and Language Therapists!" - Dee Webster,  University Teacher, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow, University of Sheffield

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1. Causes of Aphasia

2. Approaches to Understanding Aphasia

3. Aphasia Management

4. Assessment

5. Aphasia and Cognitive Impairments

6. Clinical Diagnosis: Associated Communication Disorders

7. Treatments

8. The Therapist, The Therapeutic Relationship and Different Roles

9. Therapy

10. Living with Aphasia

11. Psychological Impact of Aphasia and Support

Appendices