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The role of learning in improving functional writing in stroke aphasia.
CONCLUSIONS: These results show that small doses of writing therapy can lead to large gains in specific types of writing. These gains did not extend to improvements in frequency of writing in daily living, nor ecological measures of email writing. There is a need to develop bridging interventions between experimental tasks towards more multi-faceted and ecological everyday writing tasks. Implications for Rehabilitation Acquired dysgraphia can restrict people from participating in social, educational and professional life. This study has shown that copy and recall spelling therapies can improve the spelling of treated words...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - January 5, 2016 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Thiel L, Sage K, Conroy P Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

'I do the best I can': an in-depth exploration of the aphasia management pathway in the acute hospital setting.
CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest significant diversity in the pathways of care for people with aphasia and their families in the acute hospital setting. Additional support mechanisms are required in order to support speech pathologists to minimise the evidence-practice gap. Implications for Rehabilitation Significant diversity exists in the current aphasia management pathway for people with acute post-stroke aphasia and their families in the acute hospital setting. Mechanisms that support speech pathologists to minimise the evidence-practice gap, and consequently reduce their sense of professional dissonance, are required. ...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 17, 2015 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Foster AM, Worrall LE, Rose ML, O'Halloran R Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Choral singing therapy following stroke or Parkinson's disease: an exploration of participants' experiences.
CONCLUSIONS: Choral singing was perceived by people with stroke and PD to help them self-manage some of the consequences of their condition, including social isolation, low mood and communication difficulties. Implications for Rehabilitation Choral singing therapy (CST) is sought out by people with stroke and PD to help self-manage symptoms of their condition. Participation is perceived as an enjoyable activity which improves mood, voice and language symptoms. CST may enable access to specialist music therapy and speech language therapy protocols within community frameworks. PMID: 26200449 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - July 22, 2015 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Fogg-Rogers L, Buetow S, Talmage A, McCann CM, Leão SH, Tippett L, Leung J, McPherson KM, Purdy SC Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Speech pathologists' experience of involving people with stroke-induced aphasia in clinical decision making during rehabilitation.
CONCLUSIONS: There is a need for greater emphasis on how to involve people with severe aphasia in goal setting and treatment planning, and frameworks made to enhance collaboration could preferably be used. Participants reported use of next of kin as proxies in goal-setting and clinical decision making for people with moderate-to-severe aphasia, indicating the need for awareness towards maintaining the clients' autonomy and addressing the goals of next of kin. Implications for Rehabilitation Speech pathologists, and most likely other professionals, should place greater emphasis on client participation to ensure active invol...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - July 15, 2015 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Berg K, Rise MB, Balandin S, Armstrong E, Askim T Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

A systematic review of studies reporting multivariable models to predict functional outcomes after post-stroke inpatient rehabilitation.
Conclusions: Only a selected group of variables have repeatedly proven to be significant predictors of functional ability after post-stroke inpatient rehabilitation. [Box: see text]. PMID: 25250807 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - September 24, 2014 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Meyer MJ, Pereira S, McClure A, Teasell R, Thind A, Koval J, Richardson M, Speechley M Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Understanding significant others' experience of aphasia and rehabilitation following stroke.
Conclusions: With a greater sensitivity to significant others who focus on the stroke survivor and disregard their own needs, rehabilitation professionals and especially speech-language therapists, can assist families in reestablishing communication and satisfying relationships which are affected because of aphasia. Implications for Rehabilitation This qualitative study shows that significant others of aphasic stroke survivors experience rehabilitation as services focused on the person who had the stroke. Significant others' satisfaction with rehabilitation is not related to the fulfillment of their personal (e.g. resuming...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - December 27, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Hallé MC, Le Dorze G Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

Towards a consumer-informed research agenda for aphasia: preliminary work.
Conclusions: This project demonstrates that consumers with aphasia can participate as stakeholders in the discussion of research needs in aphasia. Additional work is needed to fully develop a consumer-informed research agenda for aphasia. Implications for Rehabilitation The perspectives of individuals with post-stroke aphasia on research needs can be successfully collected using nominal group techniques. Consumer input to research agendas and priorities can help to address potential research biases. Clinicians and researchers can use these techniques and other communication supports to foster collaborative, patient-centere...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - September 3, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Hinckley J, Boyle E, Lombard D, Bartels-Tobin L Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

'Masterstroke: a pilot group stroke prevention program for community dwelling stroke survivors'.
Conclusions: Participation in the Masterstroke program for community dwelling stroke survivors resulted in significant improvements in knowledge, functional balance, dietary behaviours and quality of life. Qualitative interviews support the participants' implementation of lifestyle changes essential for reducing risks of secondary stroke. Results support the utilisation of this model and warrants rigorous investigation regarding long-term impacts of an education and exercise program on community dwelling stroke survivors. [Box: see text]. PMID: 23641954 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - May 26, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: White JH, Bynon BL, Marquez J, Sweetapple A, Pollack M Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

The lived experience of engaging in everyday occupations in persons with mild to moderate aphasia.
Conclusion: Aphasia can have a long-term impact on engagement in everyday occupations and participation in society, but conversely, engagement in meaningful occupations can also contribute to adaptation to disability and life changes. Implications for Rehabilitation Aphasia can have a long-term impact on engagement in everyday occupations and participation in society. Health care professionals need to determine what clients with aphasia think about their occupations and life situations in spite of difficulties they may have verbalizing their thoughts. Experiences of engaging in meaningful occupations can help clie...
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - January 25, 2013 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Niemi T, Johansson U Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research

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