Speech Therapy Aphasia Rehabilitation Workbook: Expressive and Written Language

I purchased this for my husband after suffering a stroke. He experienced aphasia and this workbook was quite beneficial. Quick activities that can be done in 5-10 minutes. I highly recommend this workbook.

I had a mini stroke and this book helped me to recover from speech issues quickly.

What a great tool!Often, people are cut off from therapy services with few options for continued intervention. This book offers a tool that is so easy to use - family members or volunteers can work with the person with aphasia to find words, talk about topics, and more.My son had a stroke many years ago - so I own many workbooks. But - this STAR Workbook is by far the best I've seen. I like the large font and use of large colored graphics. (people with aphasia often need the larger font - as well as the visual support)I facilitate 3 aphasia support groups in Las Vegas as well as am the Director of the Aphasia Recovery Connection. People with aphasia have given thumbs ups to these books - which says a lot - because often workbooks are tedious and boring. This breathes with color and life.People with aphasia usually WANT to continue their efforts on recovery. This book gives them that tool. There is no such thing as a plateau - people can make gains over a lifetime - but they need engaging tools to keep up the efforts on their own after therapy ends.

I bought 2 of these books for my brother who lost his ability to communicate due to a brain tumor in Broca’s area. He lives in Japan where a speech therapist can not help him with English. His wife’s English isn’t strong enough either. He can’t work on these exercises independently. A key to the exercises would help him do just that. The only thing I can think to do is buy a second set, make the key and send him the pages. I am more than willing to do that for my brother, but it may slow him down and frustrate him even more as he tries to put back his life. I think the author should have done that work.

I bought it for my wife whose had a stroke and needed to exercise her vocabulary and her brain to remember words. It helped her speed up her recovery. This could also work very good to teach a child words and to expedite the learning process, so said my daughter who's a Child Development graduate.

I bought this book for myself as I had a stroke 7 yrs. ago and aphasia is one of my side effects from it.PT & OT never addressed this issue so I was left with dealing with it on my own. I had a tough time finding books, even games, to assist me in working with this "disorder".When I found out that there was help available, I was so happy. FINALLY!! Someone who truly gets what stroke survivors have to live with. I am starting off slow with certain exercises in the workbook plus a good friend of mine, who's a math teacher, gave me a website to check out for improving math skills (another side effect from the stroke).This author did an amazing job and I would highly recommend this book to anybody who has aphasia. I plan to share this with my neurologist so he can tell his patients about it.And yes, the exercises are easy, so don't worry about it.

My husband suffered a stroke in August. I never had heard the word Aphasia before. I was told that with his stroke he has Aphasia. I needed to find out all I could on what this is. This book has been excellent in helping me help my husband. Please learn all you can about Aphasia. It will help you along with this patient who has Aphasia.

My dad had a stroke a couple of months back, which resulted in him having aphasia. Unfortunately, Medicare only covered so many speech therapy sessions. I found this on Amazon and noticed it was the same style as what the therapist used, so I purchased it. It works great for my dad and would highly recommend it.

While a little bit expensive at just over £22 imo, this is an absolutely super book so far for my father who has had severe aphasia for 12 years. He was excited about getting it and has been really pleased with it so far. It consists of the types of exercises a speech therapist would work with, and there's a good range of activities (with nice prominent and colourful pictures) from identifying simple things around the home (things in the bathroom, kitchen etc) to a list of the alphabet and numbers towards the back which he can try to read out loud every day alone. Other things like hits from the 70s are fine for Dad but obviously will be more difficult or not relevant for younger users, but on the whole so far I'd say this book is very balanced in its material and so suitable for most.Ideally the user will be motivated and ideally have someone patient with you to really hone and stimulate the speech skills to make those neurons fire and re-connect and find new paths, so that speech really comes back as well as it can. Also in my experience practice as often as possible is needed (e.g. in severe cases like my father just trying to read the alphabet aloud every day or so).For loved ones, helpers, and carers using this book also be creative and inventive (around the needs of the person with aphasia). My dad can't answer a lot of the questions so his helper printed out the answers, got him to match them to the questions, and then got him to try to read them. I think every case is slightly different so copy and then play around with the material!The book is 'just' a resource to build on and we have only used it a few times, but we've both (Dad as the user and me as a helper) a good few times in depth and it all looks great!Some creativity helps a lot too.

I bought this for my father who had a stroke just over 3 weeks ago and has had some communication difficulties since.I found it when my mother and I were, to be honest in a bit of despair about the lack of information about exercises you can do to help people with Aphasia. It really does seemed to have helped him in quite a short space of time, although some exercises he has found more difficult than others. We did also buy the second book in this series, which he seems to find slightly easier to grasp. I guess this is largely dependent on how the brain has been affected, but if there are difficulties with this book, it might be worth you trying another in the series to see if it helps more.One very, very minor point to mention - the book is Americanised in places - for example talks about a faucet, rather than a tap - not a big deal but as we thought it might cause confusion, we missed out those bits for now.

This is so good. We use it every day and the person with aphasia in our family is steadily progressing and using more and more words which he had forgotten. This sort of therapy should be recommended to every person who leaves the hospital after a stroke which had affected his speech.

very good book it can help if used correctly would recommend this book the only way it could help is if you use it don't buy it and not use it get working its a long road but keep on trucking.

THIS BOOK IS NOTHING SHORT OF EXCELLENT !I HAD A CAR ACCIDENT WHICH RESULTED IN CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH BEING NON EXISTENT.THIS BOOK HELPED A GREAT DEAL, AND, I AM NOT ALONE !