Communicative Accessibility in Aphasia: An Investigation of the Interactional Context of Long-Term Care Facilities.

Conclusions: Findings highlighted several barriers in LTCFs that worked to discourage persons with aphasia from living social and expressive lives. Specific obstacles included a misunderstanding of aphasia and its influence on communicative exchanges and performance-oriented environment that overlooked psychosocial needs. Speech-language pathologists have an important role for advocacy in LTCFs. Clinical implications for assessment and treatment in institutions are discussed. PMID: 30208487 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology)

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