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