feeling disempowered.Speech and language therapy sometimes focuses on getting disabled children to satisfy developmental norms instead of looking at what the children themselves want to achieve.This chapter explores why these things happen and how therapy can be made more supportive and less oppressive....
a huge difference to their diagnosis, care and management. The registrar highlighted the importance of investing in building trust and when we do this outcomes can be influenced positively. A speech and language therapist talked about the importance of ensuring patients have control over health and ...
It is hard to capture how a fantastic therapist can impact your life. This has been a process of transformation rather than development. I can comfortably say, that many people in my life are grateful that I was blessed with such a talented psychologist. Thank you for showing me the beauty...
Interventions that include PWA pose methodological challenges due to the communicative barriers. This has resulted in a systematic exclusion of this target group outside the field of speech-and-language therapy [25,26]. In a meta-synthesis of 293 qualitative research reports concerning chronic illness...
This allows the therapist to provide the patient with "instructional corrections" (Hindmarsh et al., 2014), i.e., relevant details and explanations about how instructed actions are to be accomplished. In speech and language therapy for example, in cases in which a patient with aphasia ...
This year I’m celebrating my second Mother’s Day as a mama. I know, real veteran, right? I don’t even pretend to have something on the rest of you mamas out there but I can say that being a mother has changed me as a speech therapist, dare I even say, made mebetter. ...
and intrigue us. AI-generated portrayals of characters can feature synthesized faces, bodies and voices of anyone, from a fictional character to a historical figure, or even a deceased family member. Although negative use cases of this technology have dominated the conversation so far, in this ...
The researcher is a trained and educated speech and language therapist and has previous experience in providing therapy. Thus, she knew how to approach patients and possessed background knowledge of therapeutic interventions and the patient-therapist relationship. The quantitative part employs the ...
Dr Wendy Rinaldi has worked since 1983 as a speech and language therapist with children, teenagers and adults and since 1998, having gained her doctorate with the London University Institute of Education, as an advisor in psychology and special needs to professionals in health and education through...
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