Qualitative Analysis of Covert Stuttering: Workplace Implications and Saving Face

The study investigated former covertly stuttering people within a qualitative research paradigm. Open-ended, ethnographic interviews were carried out with six adults who identified themselves as people who stutter and also who, for some time in their lives, covertly stuttered. The six participants shared their experiences of covert stuttering and their process of coming to terms with overt stuttering with three whose experiences related strongly with workplace issues. Emerging themes dealt with why some people maintain their covertness in the workplace, i.e., saving face and maintaining one’s professional reputation. In contrast, the interviews elucidated why and how individuals with covert stuttering, through workplace penalties, can come to realize that hiding one’s stuttering is unproductive. Considering parallels with other marginalized populations, recommendations for future directions in covert stuttering research are presented

The Modification of Spousal Interaction After Aphasia

Researchers have investigated the ways spouses collaboratively overcome the communication barriers they face subsequent to aphasia in one of the partners (e.g., Oelschlaeger & Damico, 2003). These studies have demonstrated ways that the interactional dynamic is employed to re-establish social action after aphasia. However, little has been done to determine how spousal dyads created these modifications. This study was undertaken to investigate how the evolution of the described adaptations to conversation within spousal dyads was accomplished

The Impact of Spontaneous Recovery in Clinical Aphasiology

In clinical aphasiology, there are a number of well-accepted concepts that are considered organizing constructs in the discipline. One such construct is the concept of spontaneous recovery (SR). This construct influences the expectations that we hold regarding the time frame for greatest recovery and for best clinical response, and a host of theoretical and organizing principles that determine much of our planning and research design and that guide our expectations with respect to treatment, recovery, reimbursement, and explanatory mechanisms for recovery. However, the construct itself has been little studied

Reading skills in an individual with aphasia: The usefulness of meaningbased clinical applications. Asia Pacific

This case study investigates the impact of a meaning-based reading intervention program on an individual with aphasia. Though this qualitative method of inquiry, pretreatment and post-treatment change is documented and results indicate that the meaning-based approach had an impact on the recovery of literacy skills-particularly comprehension. In addition to describing the individual with aphasia and her reaction to the intervention, the program itself is detailed. Considerations of how the program is organized, its treatments objectives, the materials employed, and the various procedures that incorporate authentic reading and writing into the program are described