Speech Therapy Aphasia Rehabilitation Workbook: Expressive and Written Language

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 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.

So glad to have found this book to support a stroke survivor with aphasia. It is easy to use to supplement professional therapy, to use when therapy ends, or if therapy isn't accessible. No special skills (other than english comprehension) are needed to start using this book to help someone with aphasia.

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 am an SLP who is always looking for new resources to use in therapy. I hadn't heard of this book but decided to buy it because it was on sale. I love it! It has large color photos for naming with prompts to assist with description, etc. There are also many photos of "scenes" for the patient to describe. This book also has basic sentences to read aloud for dysarthria patients. It even has some writing exercises, such as filling out a job application. I will definitely be getting some use out of this book!

This excellent resource is RAPIDLY helping my husband recover his speech. My husband had a stoke 5 years ago. 3 years of speech school helped him recover a lot of speech, but when the school ended, his speech slipped away. This miracle book has helped immediately. He is talking a lot. He is regaining his normal happy disposition. He is losing his deep felt frustration as his speech slipped away. Get this book. A little time each day skipping through the exercises revives SPEECH!

I bought 2 of these---one for me to keep, and one for a patient to take and use as his home program. The activities are very open ended and can be modified to fit your needs--I've used the activities as intended, but found that some pages made wonderful ORLA stimuli. One thing I love about this book is the glossy pictures (having worked with so many books with no pictures or small line drawings that didn't add much, this was unexpected). Anyway, I highly recommend this book and plan to buy more copies to send home with patients in the future.

I bought this book based on all the good reviews in other Speech Pathology groups I am in. I wanted to look inside before I bought but I figured I could just return it if it was a bunch of hype. Shortly after I bought this book, however, I got a patient with aphasia and apraxia in which we work on Melodic Intonation Therapy and completion of common phrases. It's easy to tell this book was written by a very knowledgable SLP. I love it and will be recommending it to my patient and his family when they leave my facility.

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.

While the material in the book looks great its use on the PC is useless I can't print off any of the pages for use in one to one situation further there's no means of downloading to an ipad like iTunes. I don't want to set up an internet access in my ipad so this kindle system leaves a bit to be desired.

Very good

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.

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.