The value of “communication strategies” in the treatment of aphasia

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to colleagues Margaret Forbes and Davida Fromm for their substantial input into the FPP, and to my aphasic friends and family who contributed to this study. I am also grateful to: individuals from the Aphasia Group at the University of Arizona for their participation; the Adler Aphasia Center (Maywood, NJ), Aphasia Center of California (Oakland CA), Aphasia Center of Tucson, (Tucson, AZ), Aphasia Center of West Texas (Midland, TX), University of Massachusetts Aphasia Group (Amherst, MA), SCALE Center (Baltimore, MD), Triangle Aphasia Project (Carey, NC), the University of South Carolina; and my neighbors for being the non-aphasic piloting and comparison groups.

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Notes

1. Who in normal discourse would ever say “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand”?

2. https://aphasia.talkbank.org/famous/.

3. As I was administering the protocol, he made a great show of writing “I love you”, hiding the paper from his wife who was seated across the table from him, and passing the note along to me.

4. In 2017, RIC became the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab.

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Funding

This work was funded in part by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant R01-DC008524 (20017-2022) awarded to Brian MacWhinney.