Communication Strategies of Aphasia
Location
CSU Ballroom
Start Date
11-4-2017 2:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2017 3:30 PM
Student's Major
Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services
Student's College
Allied Health and Nursing
Mentor's Name
H. Sheen Chiou
Mentor's Department
Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services
Mentor's College
Allied Health and Nursing
Description
Anomic aphasia is the mild loss of the ability to understand or express speech caused by brain damage. It is important to use patient-reported data in order to understand the patients' views on their needs for communication strategies. The purpose of this research was to examine whether people with anomic aphasia self-reported using communication strategies before and after acquiring aphasia, and if they did, how these strategies changed. Eight males and six females with anomic aphasia, ranging from ages 37-83 were asked to self-report what they did to help their conversational partners understand their speech in a conversation before and after aphasia using the Assessment of Living with Aphasia, an aphasia friendly patient-reported outcome measure.
The results indicated that 13/14 participants with anomic aphasia self-reported that they used communication strategies after aphasia. The most common communicative strategies included gestures, pointing, writing, slow down, and relax/slow down. Majority of the participants (7/14) self- reported using more strategies after aphasia. Approximately one third of the participants (4/14) used the same amount of strategies before and after aphasia. Fourteen percent of the participants (2/14) reported using fewer strategies after aphasia. Before aphasia the participants used gestural strategies (e.g., pointing strategy for 35% of the participants), whereas after aphasia they used more relaxation/slow down as a communication strategy (64% of the participants). The findings may be beneficial to speech-language pathologists to choose individualized communication strategies to improve overall communication for people with aphasia.
Communication Strategies of Aphasia
CSU Ballroom
Anomic aphasia is the mild loss of the ability to understand or express speech caused by brain damage. It is important to use patient-reported data in order to understand the patients' views on their needs for communication strategies. The purpose of this research was to examine whether people with anomic aphasia self-reported using communication strategies before and after acquiring aphasia, and if they did, how these strategies changed. Eight males and six females with anomic aphasia, ranging from ages 37-83 were asked to self-report what they did to help their conversational partners understand their speech in a conversation before and after aphasia using the Assessment of Living with Aphasia, an aphasia friendly patient-reported outcome measure.
The results indicated that 13/14 participants with anomic aphasia self-reported that they used communication strategies after aphasia. The most common communicative strategies included gestures, pointing, writing, slow down, and relax/slow down. Majority of the participants (7/14) self- reported using more strategies after aphasia. Approximately one third of the participants (4/14) used the same amount of strategies before and after aphasia. Fourteen percent of the participants (2/14) reported using fewer strategies after aphasia. Before aphasia the participants used gestural strategies (e.g., pointing strategy for 35% of the participants), whereas after aphasia they used more relaxation/slow down as a communication strategy (64% of the participants). The findings may be beneficial to speech-language pathologists to choose individualized communication strategies to improve overall communication for people with aphasia.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Alexandria; Elayna Dyke; and Nicole Burrington. "Communication Strategies of Aphasia." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 11, 2017.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2017/poster-session-B/5
