Navigating Aphasia

Navigating Aphasia provides the reader with a starting point for working with people with aphasia; presenting key, practical points to consider in the clinical management of this client group. With a focus on both the language impairment and the consequences of aphasia, this book is packed with easily accessible, applied advice about assessment and therapy from an experienced aphasia clinician. Key sections include: • Understanding aphasia • Clinical management • Assessment • Approaches to therapy • Language and cognition • Living with aphasia.Concluding with an appendix featuring useful books, websites and professional organisations, this is an essential, practical and comprehensive guide for newly qualified and student speech and language therapists, as well as those new to the world of aphasia.