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This handbook is for people who have aphasia. Many people have aphasia as a result of a stroke. Aphasia makes it difficult to talk, read, and write. You can think perfectly well, but you struggle to put your thoughts into words.

CONTENTS: How to Use this handbook * What is aphasia * Communication Tips * Understanding Information * Using the Phone/Internet * Using an Advocate

What Happened: Stroke * More about Aphasia * Being in the Hospital * Rehabilitation and Speech Therapy * Coming out of the Hospital * Getting Support at Home * Money and Benefits * Vocational Opportunities

Living With Aphasia: Relationships * Communicating with Others * Transportation and Travel * Your Interests * Education

Choices and Rights: Your Rights as a Patient * Your Rights as a Person with a Disability * Making a Complaint * Elder Abuse * Living Wills * Legal Issues ... Read more

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Jakobson, Linguistics, Structuralism
Jakobson's text _Child Language Aphasia and Phonological Universals_ is atechnical but readable examination of the most basic level of speech,phonemic differentiation. His approach, as in his other work, isstructuralist.

Beginning with a discussion of previous theories of childlanguage, Jakobson clarifies the need for and context of his theory. Thepremise of his approach is that phonemes achieve significance only in theircontrastive relationships. Using this idea, he explains specifically manyof the speech deformities (or, non-formities) typical of children, e.g.,substitution of "y" for "l". Jakobson shows that consonant and voweldifferentiation patterns are essentially the same for learners of all humanlanguages. He also shows that the production of some sounds presupposes theproduction of other sounds. The hierarchy of contrastive relationshipsbetween phonemes is clarified with his discussion of aphasia, speechformation in reverse, and pronunciation of foreign languages. E.g., "r" and"l" are difficult for those whose first and primary language is Japanesebecause Japanese does not use the latter liquid; similarly, Russianspeakers have difficulties with Serbo-Croatian accents, and Englishspeakers with the German "ch".

I came to this text as a student learningabout structuralism. It has been extremely useful to me as an example ofapplied structuralist thought. When I need context for abstractstructuralist ideas, I exemplify them in the terms of Jakobson's linguistictheory; it is especially easy to do so with this theory because it's atheory of language, the example that sets the rule for structuralism, andbecause its presentation is crystal clear. ... Read more

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"The Man who Lost His Language" is a compelling exploration of aphasia - the loss of language - as well as of the resilience of love. When Sir John Hale suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk, write or speak, his wife, Shelia, followed every available medical trail seeking knowledge of his condition and how he might be restored to health. Bringing the story up to date, this revised edition includes additional information about updates in science and medicine since the first edition was published. This personal account of one couple's experiences will be of interest to all those who want to know more about aphasia and related conditions. ... Read more

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An Inspiration to the Mind
Sheila Hale's in depth analysis of the emotional and physical toll that surrounded her husband John's stroke will enlighten and lift the spirits of those who take care of a loved one suffering from a stroke. The topic of aphasia has not been well known on a physiological basis; however, the emotional consequences have been pushed out of thought. This 247-page book does a wonderful job of connecting the physiological and emotional aspects of handling a loved one suffering from stroke-induced aphasia. Thus, the amount of passion felt by Sheila does not outweigh the amount of information she provides about stroke and aphasia victims. Overall, the book is education for the mind and inspiration for the spirit.

Although the book starts out as a tribute to John's life, it is very uneventful. John Hale was a gentleman and scholar before the "accident." He was greatly interested in natural history at a young age and volunteered for a Royal Air Force mission to study the mating activities of falcons in Whales. In addition, he focused his effort in studying Renaissance art by writing books, giving lectures, and charming the world with his talks on radio and TV. After teaching history at London University and becoming a chair of the Trustees of the National Gallery, he was knighted in 1984. Furthermore, he retired from teaching to focus on writing. He wrote his masterpiece, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, in 1992 at the age of 69 proving that he was still interested in scholarly pursuits. Unfortunately, a month after publishing his masterpiece, John was found on the floor of his study after suffering a stroke.

If the reader is still reading, the main story starts about 40 pages into the book and starts to become more interesting. At this point, Sheila, John's wife, begins to recount the events following the stroke and her husband's progress through post-stroke life in a day-by-day diary. The stroke affected John's life greatly, but it seemed to affect Sheila's life equally, if not more because of the added burden of taking care of him. The whole book is not in diary form, but most of it is since she is writing about something dear to her life. The parts that are not in diary form are recollections of days she could not access her diary because she was away with John at a clinic, and these recollections are in paragraph form.

After summarizing John's life and achievements, Sheila goes on to describe the day of the stroke. Her comment stating that "it's strange how you remember such things about times of disaster" explains the crushing blow that John's stroke delivered to both of them. Although John was affected physically, Sheila was deeply affected emotionally immediately as well as in the long run. The thought of losing John was her motivation for rushing him to the hospital in an ambulance that showed up forty-five minutes after she called. Unfortunately, the damage done to John's brain was severe and caused him to be paralyzed on his right side caused by the stroke attacking his left hemisphere. The first part of John's rehabilitation included re-learning how to move and walk. At this point in the story, Sheila has learned to cope with her emotions and John has learned that he does not always have to be strong around his wife. Thus, their relationship strengthens and Sheila focuses her energy into helping her husband lead as normal a life as possible. Therefore, she does her research and tries to find professionals who can help her husband regain mobility and control with his right leg and arm. Unfortunately, no one can escape the problems with the healthcare profession. The hospital in which John was being treated was probably the worst hospital in England because he was not allowed to have physical therapy because the head of the hospital did not believe it would help. Since the hospital staff gave up on stroke victims like John, Sheila knew that she had to make a stance. So, she fought the hospital laws and transferred her husband to another doctor who was dedicated in helping her husband. She used her journalist skills to research and find any doctor who may be able to help and this dedication saved her husband from incurring any permanent damage. Thus, after much rehabilitation and physical therapy, John was able to walk short distances and perform certain tasks that were impossible months ago.

The next challenge was one that would last John the rest of his life. John was diagnosed with a speech disorder in which he could not say or write anything understandable. This was the biggest challenge for Sheila because it posed as a roadblock in his recovery as well as the recovery of their relationship. Therefore, it was always difficult for Sheila to understand what John wanted and what he was trying to tell her. However, her determination to get her husband back was stronger than her will to surrender and put him in a home. Therefore, she consulted multiple speech doctors who all tested John and found his case to be very interesting. As it turned out, he was able to identify missing words in a sentence, but he could not identify the object of the sentence. For example, when asked to fill in this sentence: When I sleep I rest my head on a ___, he would correctly put "pillow" in the blank. However, when asked, "What do you put on the pillow" he always identified the word "rest." He was unable to understand what he was supposed to do when asked that sort of question. This caused many doctors to come and go without a solid diagnosis until Sheila found an aphasia specialist.

John was diagnosed with aphasia and immediately started treatment. Although his writing improved and became more fluid, his speech was still very limited. He could only make sounds and say "fine," "bye," and "wall." This made it increasingly difficult to communicate since it discouraged John to speak or even write to Sheila, but Sheila was strong and kept supporting him throughout this difficult time. John was kept at a speech clinic for his therapy, but after a while he was released because he had reached a "plateau." Oddly enough, Sheila felt odd having John living with her back at home, and it was these small changes that created problems for them both. John felt happy to finally be back home with his wife, but Sheila felt strange now that she had to take care of him for the rest of his life. However, Sheila made sure to make John as comfortable as possible. This included having physical therapists come to their house for John's exercises so that his muscles do not tighten up and cause pain. Finally, seven years after the stroke, John began writing again. He wrote to friends and family and practiced his writing in his study. He was improving slowly, but improving nonetheless, until the day he died.

Sheila's dedication to her husband allowed her to help him return to the path of living life at his best even when he "was thinking of suicide." Although she never showed it, she was suffering as much as he was by seeing him everyday like a helpless baby. John eventually became strong enough to take care of himself, but Sheila never stopped trying to regain that lost communication between them. Their countless visits to speech doctors shows the spark that is still between them. In addition to the spark, it shows that Sheila is focused on learning everything about John's condition. For example, the book has a diagram of the brain with parts labeled. She also has MRI pictures of the brain after a stroke. The science mixed with emotions help depict her dilemma as a wife as well as a journalist. Furthermore, the mixing also causes the reader to stay involved with John's recovery. This book should be read as a history book because it covers stories that serve as lessons in life as well as science. Overall, the book is very educational as well as inspiring. It may be a slow read for some, but it is definitely worthy of recognition because of the perfect balance of emotion and knowledge that cover the pages of this book. ... Read more

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While workbooks for people with aphasia are not hard to find, they tend to be addressed to the clinical needs of the speech pathologist. However, current practice in the field aims to put more control in the hands of those with aphasia and their caregivers. This workbook facilitates that shift: It is geared toward the couple, rather than the client alone; it can be used by the speech pathologist as well as the significant other; and it is hierarchically organized, such that those with mild through severe impairment can use it. ... Read more

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Unique and Uplifting
Helen Harlan Wulf's first person account of her bout with aphasia is a rarity.Aphasia is a condition which often results from a stroke, causing damage to some or all of the language and speech areas of the brain.It can affect speaking, reading, auditory comprehension, and/or writing.Due to its often profound effect on writing abilities, written accounts are rare.As a graduate student of speech and language pathology, this book was a valuable resource.It would be equally valuable for those in other medical/health professions working with aphasics, recovering aphasics, family members or friends of those suffering from aphasia, and anyone interested in learning more about this interesting and tragic condition.While her tale sometimes wanders and repeats itself, it is, overall, a readable and complete account.She does not hesitate to share embarrassing moments and samples of her attempts at writing.Most importantly, she remains positive.She does not sugar-coat her difficulties in movement or struggles with fatigue, but manages to chart her progress and her faith in the ability of all aphasics to regain functional lives. ... Read more

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Aphasia, a devastating disorder resulting from stroke, degenerative disease, or traumatic brain injury, profoundly affects the individual's ability to use and understand language. This groundbreaking work brings together an array of leading scientist-practitioners to review what is known about aphasia and to relate current knowledge to treatment. Integrating traditional linguistic formulations with new insights derived from cognitive neuroscience, the volume explores the neuropsychological bases of both normal and pathologic language. Chapters address the major domains of language impairment in aphasia and also consider such related disorders as apraxia of speech, alexia, agraphia, and limb apraxia. Major principles of rehabilitation are described and evaluated, and the treatment literature is reviewed in depth. Throughout, the volume reflects a sophisticated understanding of brain structure and function based on new developments in connectionist modeling and functional neuroimaging.
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University of California, Los Angeles. A collection of clinical observations from a localizationist perspective of aphasia. Combines both the neurological and the neuropsychological approaches. For neurologists, neuropsychologists, and speech pathologists. ... Read more

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It is now widely expected that scientific evidence and theory should be used to describe aphasia and aphasia therapy.

The Sciences of Aphasia: From Therapy to Theory provides state-of-the-art review chapters on controversial research and clinical issues in aphasia and aphasia therapy. Contributions from distinguished scholars from all over the world (Europe, America, Australia) cover the range of disciplines involvedin aphasia, including neurology of aphasia, cognitive and linguistic approaches to aphasic therapy, psychosocial approaches, aphasia research methodology, and efficacy of aphasia therapy. This book brings together contributions of all these disciplines and makes a link between theory and therapy from a scientific perspective.

Each chapter offers a current review with extensive references, thus providing an invaluable resource for clinicians, students and researchers involved in aphasia and aphasic therapy including ... Read more

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Challenging Aphasia Therapies presents an entirely new approach to thinking on the subject of aphasia therapy by liberating it from traditional models. ... Read more

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This is a comprehensive, interpretive account of aphasia written to appeal to a broad audience. It combines historical, anatomic, and psychological approaches toward understanding the nature of aphasia. Included is a discussion of the brain-language relationship, the symptoms and syndromes common to aphasia, and alternative approaches to classification.

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* Integrates phenomenology of aphasic symptoms with the anatomy of language and current theories of brain-language relations
* Traces history of aphasic theory, from pre-Broca to contemporary theory
* Provides detailed review of manifestations of aphasia in every language modality
* Contains critical analysis of neurolinguistic inter-relations ... Read more

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Execellent resource!
The book is an excellent resource!Dr. Goodglass' ability to reach readers of all academic levels is amazing.

Understanding Aphasia
While alot of this book went over my head, Dr. Goodglass writes in a style that a layman can fairly easily understand. I have found myself referring back to information in this book many times. I would like to see follow up information on progress made since this book was written.

I did not like it. Uninformative.
I do not feel like your book covered very much area about the study, care of, and treatments of aphasia. I suggest doing more research, and checking your sources of information. ... Read more

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...this text focuses on how best to help the patient who has aphasia...discusses specific treatment methods and how to select those treatment methods and apply them for greatest efficacy ... Read more

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The Bilingual Aphasia Test is a comprehensive language test designed to assess the differential loss or sparing of various language functions in previously bilingual individuals. The individual is tested, separately, in each language he or she previously used, and then in the two languages simultaneously. The testing is multimodal -- sampling hearing, speaking, reading, and writing; and multidimensional -- testing various linguistic levels (phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and semantic), tasks (comprehension, repetition, judgment, lexical access and propositionizing), and units (words, sentences, and paragraphs).

The BAT is structured as follows:

* To test a bilingual aphasic, you will need the following testing elements: the stimulus books for each of the languages in which the individual was formerly fluent, the single-language tests for each of these languages, as well as the bilingual test that links them. For example, if you are testing an English-French bilingual aphasic, you will need an English stimulus book, a French stimulus book, an English single-language test, a French single-language test, and an English-French bilingual test.
* The BAT can also be used to test monolingual aphasics. To test for monolingual aphasia, you will need the stimulus book and the single-language test in the language in which the individual was formerly fluent.

* Professor Paradis' book, The Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia, provides the background material and serves as the manual for the test.

The BAT is available in dozens of languages and language pairs. There are now 106 bilingual pairs available. Additional single-language and bilingual tests are being prepared continuously. If the language (or language pair) you need is not listed, please call LEA to find out if and when it will be available.

Single-language materials are now available in:

Amharic
Arabic (Jordanian)
Arabic (Maghrebian)
Armenian (Eastern)
Armenian (Western)
Azari
Basque
Berber
Bulgarian
Catalán
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Farsi
Finnish
French
Friulian
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Inuktitut
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Korean
Kurdish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luganda
Malagasy
Norwegian
Oryia
Polish
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Portuguese (European)
Rumanian
Russian
Somali
Spanish (American)
Spanish (European)
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Yiddish

Bilingual pairs are now available in:

Amharic/English
Amharic/French
Arabic/Armenian
Arabic/English
Arabic/French
Arabic/Somali
Arabic/Swahili
Armenian/English
Armenian/Farsi
Armenian/French
Armenian/Russian
Basque/English
Basque/French
Basque/Spanish
Berber/English
Berber/French
Bulgarian/English
Bulgarian/French
Bulgarian/German
Bulgarian/Russian
Catalán/Spanish
Chinese (Cantonese)/English
Chinese (Mandarin)/English
Chinese/French
Croatian/English
Croatian/French
Croatian/Italian
Czech/English
Czech/German
Czech/Russian
Czech/Swedish
Danish/English
Danish/German
Dutch/English
Dutch/French
Dutch/German
Dutch/Hebrew
English/Farsi
English/Finnish
English/French
English/Friulian
English/German
English/Greek
English/Hebrew
English/Hindi
English/Hungarian
English/Icelandic
English/Italian
English/Japanese
English/Korean
English/Latvian
English/Lithuanian
English/Luganda
English/Norwegian
English/Polish
English/Portuguese
English/Rumanian
English/Russian
English/Serbian
English/Somali
English/Spanish
English/Swahili
English/Swedish
English/Tagalog
English/Turkish
English/Urdu
English/Vietnamese
Farsi/French
Farsi/Hebrew
Finnish/French
Finnish/Swedish
French/Friulian
French/German
French/Greek
French/Hebrew
French/Hungarian
French/Italian
French/Japanese
French/Malagasy
French/Polish
French/Rumanian
French/Russian
French/Serbian
French/Somali
French/Spanish
French/Swahili
French/Urdu
French/Vietnamese
Friulian/German
Friulian/Italian
Galician/Spanish
German/Greek
German/Hebrew
German/Hungarian
German/Italian
German/Polish
German/Russian
German/Spanish
German/Swedish
Greek/Spanish
Greek/Turkish
Italian/Rumanian
Italian/Spanish
Portuguese/Spanish
Russian/Swedish
Somali/Swahili
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Improving quality of life could be considered the ultimate goal of aphasia rehabilitation. Understanding clients' perspectives of their own quality of life is also crucial for targeting appropriate and effective interventions. Measuring quality of life is also an important outcome measure, crucial for ensuring adequate funding is available for aphasia services. Hence, quality of life has become a significant topic in aphasiology.
This special issue of Aphasiology is dedicated to the topic of quality of life in aphasia. The issue includes a number of studies from around the world describing and measuring quality of life in this population. It also contains studies that have developed and evaluated interventions that have addressed quality of life issues in people with aphasia. The issue provides a comprehensive view of quality of life research currently being conducted in aphasiology around the world. ... Read more

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This innovative new book brings together a number of different perspectives on aphasia, a communication impairment that can follow stroke. Contributors include people with personal experience of aphasia, as well as therapists, counsellors, educationalists, linguists and researchers who address issues of living with aphasia in their work.Whatever their perspective, whether personal, theoretical or professional, contributors reflect on and explore aspects of living with aphasia that have little place in conventional academic discourse. Accordingly, the chapters cover a range of issues, for example aphasia and the Internet, time and poetry. The diverse contributions are drawn together by an introductory chapter and a linking commentary.

Aphasia Inside Out suggests new ways of thinking about aphasia, offers insights into the nature of the disabling barriers faced, and explores some creative possibilities open to people who live with communication disability. It will be a valuable resource for any professional or layperson who encounters aphasia in the course of daily life.

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