Communication And Its Impact On Individual 's Sense Of Belonging

Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects many adults and families. Aphasia occurs as a result of damage to the language-specific areas of the brain (ASHA, 2014). Individuals with aphasia may experience difficulties with oral language, receptive language, memory, attention writing, and reading. There are a myriad of approaches designed for the treatment of aphasia. Two treatment approaches, Promoting Aphasics Communicative Effectiveness (P.A.C.E.) and Constraint Induced Language Therapy (C.I.L.T.), and their efficacy in regard to available evidence will be discussed below.

With this therapy approach, clients have a greater opportunity to improve more than one area of language and communication when compared to Constraint Induced Language Therapy. Computer-Based Language Therapy gives individuals the opportunity to work through the program at their own pace and also present the instructions and stimuli in various ways. Even though there is not a great deal of evidence for these two approaches, there is more evidence towards the Computer-Based interventions. This study provided a more randomized study when it came to the participant’s and their therapy. Even though there are limitations to every study, out of these two, Computer-Based Language Therapy is a better approach to work with individuals with aphasia (Paul

Expressive (motor) Aphasia is a neurological condition that occurs when words cannot be formed, expressed, or may be absent due to an injury to the cerebral cortex. (Brooks & Brooks, 2012).

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder that affects a person’s ability to understand oral and written language, speaking and writing. It is estimated that one third of those who survive stroke have aphasia (Department of Health, 2007). Most patients with aphasia exhibit spontaneous recovery, usually in the first 2-3 months following stroke onset (Godecke, Hird, Lalor, Rai, & Phillips, 2012). However, 30-40% of these patients may experience long-term post-stroke aphasia (Bakheit et al., 2007). Continued rehabilitative treatments with the speech and language pathologists (SLPs) are not as significantly effective due to the current high demands on limited resources (Palmer et al., 2012), which reduced the availability of face-to-face speech

A contributing factor to this is how difficult it is for people with aphasia to produce sentences that flow smoothly and to connect their sentences. Computer software is helpful in speech therapy because it allows the patients to be able to record themselves speaking, replay it so they can hear exactly what they sound like, and be able to string together partial sentences. This computer program helps the patient produce sentences as they are being formulated. The goal of this program is to “investigate the utility of a two-step treatment that supplements improvements achieved from the use of the software with explicit structural treatment.” (Aphasiology 2009). The results of this study show that this specific approach improves the speech of patients suffering from aphasia, even chronic and non-fluent

Human beings occasionally suffer bad damage to particular parts of their brains. Unfortunately, these injuries may lead to major failure of speech production, understanding language and comprehension which most of the patients suffer it permanently. This impairment is called Aphasia. Gayle (2012) states that people with aphasia fail to understand sentence comprehension although it is a simple sentence. She also mentioned that aphasia patients also have difficulty in reading and understanding speeches. According to Fromkin, Rodman and Hyams (2011), aphasia is a scientific term used to explained language disorder due to brain injuries caused by diseases or trauma. In other words, aphasia involves partial or total loss of the ability to

This is when the sufferer cannot find the correct word for what they intend. Often aphasia does not develop until the sufferer has reached the second stage of the disease (estimated to be last between 4 and 10 years after the first symptoms) (Devinsky & D'Esposito, 2004). Alzheimer’s disease is not the only cause for aphasia, and it affects patients in different severity levels. Aphasia is clear to recognise as you can detect it by simply conversing with the patient, however differentiating between it being caused by Alzheimer’s disease or another condition (e.g. semantic dementia) can prove more difficult. A study was carried out (Libon et al., 2013) where 57 patients with Alzheimer’s disease, 15 with semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and 35 healthy seniors (used as the control group). They were asked to carry out a number of tasks such as categorizing words. They were shown a basic word on a card (e.g. ‘tree’), and then the experimenter would say a category (e.g. ‘nature’). The participant was required to reply ‘yes’ or ‘no’ depending on if the word related to the category. The task was repeated using picture images of the words instead, so the participant would be shown the image of a tree instead for example. Both the experimental groups (the Alzheimer’s patients and the semantic variant PPA patients) showed a significant deficiency in word processing from the task. MRI

Mesulum (2003) defined primary progressive aphasia as a clinical disorder with gradual onset and progressive dissolution in an individuals' language skills which could be attributed to the degeneration of the frontotemporal region of the brain. According to the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, (2015) Primary Progressive Apahsia is described as focal dementia which characterized by gradual loss of language function with relatively well unaffected memory skills, and visual processing skills until the later stages

The most common treatment for aphasia is treatment with a speech-language therapist. The therapist works to identify the exact issues the patient is having and to develop a plan on how to improve and manage those issues. The therapist can help the patient use his or her remaining abilities to the fullest, to restore language abilities where possible, to work around remaining language problems, and to learn other ways to get the message

The topic of this annotated bibliography is communicating with people who have Aphasia. Aphasia is neurological condition that occurs when the tissues in the left hemisphere of the brain that are responsible for speech, reading and writing are impaired (National Institute of Neurological Disorders, 2013). The main signs of this disorder are: trouble in articulating oneself when speaking, difficulty understanding speech, and problems with reading and writing. Aphasia is usually caused by a stroke, severe head trauma, brain tumors, and brain infections (National Institute of Neurological Disorders, 2013). Aspasia is more common in elderly individuals, The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) states that Aphasia will occur in 15% percent of persons under the age of 65 and will increase to 43% for people that are 85 years of age and older (National Institute of Neurological Disorders, 2013).

During the clinical observations I observed a 60-year-old man whose clinical diagnosis is non-fluent aphasia. To improve on his conversation skills he has worked with the clinician using conversational therapy. When viewing the session, the client expressed an understanding when asked questions on cars and movies. Most of the time he was intelligible, but it becomes hard to understand him when he stops to retrieve a word. As this takes place, he uses SAF or AAC’s triggering for the word he did not remember. His AAC’s consisted of unaided and aided communication systems using his body to receive kinesthetic feedbacks and his phone. He not only expressed his ideas, but demonstrates an interest on his goals for this session and semester. By asking

My interest in this topic dates back in high school when I realized how much effect sense of belonging had on my education. During elementary school, things used to happen just like I wanted. Teachers, other pupils were quite friendly. In fact, school was the most exciting place I always wanted to be. I was always the best performing pupil in continuous assessment test and end of year’s exams. Things changed when I went to high school. Everyone was very busy with their work. Teachers and fellow were quite serious. I found that my grades were not as excellent as in elementary school. Nothing motivated me. My behavior worsened and at some point, I even wanted to drop out of school as I felt that I was completely out of place. I believe that

Constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT) focuses on using intensive verbal practice with clinician-guided verbal cuing without the use of other compensatory strategies (ex: naming). Although there are concerns that limiting communication compensatory strategies could create frustration with speaking, it is theorized that a supportive environment and better

The dysfunction I choose to write about is Aphasia. I choose Aphasia because I have always been very interested in the brain and how important its function is to quality of life. Aphasia is a communication and comprehension disorder that is a result of damage to the area of the brain responsible for language. This area is usually located on the left side of the brain. Aphasia was discover by a French neuroanatomist name Paul Broca’s.

Communication affects the development of our personal identity in several ways. One way being that the comments we receive daily, whether it be good or bad, plays a part on how we view ourselves. The things that we say to one another builds the perception that we have of ourselves. For example, if we were called smart for majority of our childhood, then we would most likely view ourself as an intelligent person. Also, our intrapersonal communication affects the development of our personal identity. Depending on how we speak to ourselves, we establish a nice self identity, or a negative one.