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Speech, language and communication difficulties
A guide for patients and carers
Further reading
Action for Dysphasic Adults publications
- Complicating factors with dysphasia
- How to help the dysphasic person in the early stages
- How to help the dysphasic person with comprehension and speech
- How to help the dysphasic person with reading and writing
- How to help with total communication
- Living with dysphasia (audio tape)
- Stroke and dysphasia - drawing the picture together
- Dysphasia matters - a medical teaching pack (a video and lecture pack for educating GPs).
- Less words, more respect - my experience with dysphasia by Monica Clarke (1997).
Other publications
Aphasia - A social approach by Lesley Jordan and Wendy Kaiser (1996) Chapman & Hall.
Assessment and management of emotional and psychosocial reactions to brain damage and aphasia by Peter Wahrborg (1989) Far Communication, Kibworth.
Jumbly words and rights where wrongs should be: The experience of aphasia from the inside by Gill Edelman and Robert Greenwood (1992) Far Communications, Kibworth.
Living after stroke by Diana Law and B. Patterson (1980) Souvenir Press,
London.
Return to Ithaca by Barbara Newborn (1997) Element Press.
Talking about aphasia: living with loss of language after stroke by Susie Parr, Sally Byng, Sue Gilpin and Chris Ireland (1997) Open University Press.
The Diving bell and the butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (1997) Fourth Estate.
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Contents
- Introduction
- What is communication?
- Why do neurological disorders affect communication?
- Language difficulties: What is language?
- Language difficulties: What is aphasia?
- Language difficulties: Speech and language for people with aphasia
- Language difficulties: Recovery
- Language Difficulties: Progressive aphasia
- Language difficulties: Personal experiences of aphasia
- Language difficulties: What can you do to help a person with aphasia communicate?
- Speech difficulties
- Speech difficulties: How is speech affected in people with neurological disorders?
- Speech difficulties: Speech and language therapy for people with dysarthria
- Speech difficulties: Medical and surgical treatment
- Speech difficulties: Personal experiences
- Speech difficulties: What can you do to help communication?
- Other communication problems
- Further reading
- Other organisations that may be able to help
