"SPPARC" highlights the importance of working with partners in order to create real life change both for partners and for people with aphasia. "The SPPARC" pack consists of a manual, CD Rom and DVD and provides: practical resources to run, support and conversation training programmes either for groups of partners or for the partner and the person with aphasia together as a couple; conversation assessment and treatment materials, photocopiable and printable (from the CD Rom) activities and handouts, as well as an introduction to conversational analysis; and, a DVD with 27 extracts of everyday conversations between several people with aphasia and their partners, which can be used as a resource both for assessing everyday conversation and for facilitating change.Theoretically validated through the 'Coping with Communicating' research project from University College London, "SPPARC" goes beyond the theory and provides a complete resource of clinically effective tools to work with people with aphasia and their communication partners.
Teaching videos can be used to demonstrate examples of the behaviour to be targeted, as can the use of handouts and written exercises and role-playing activities (these resources are available in SPPARC). Once the behaviour is reliably ...
One main way in which this has occurred is through the publication of SPPARC (Lock, Wilkinson and Bryan, 2001). SPPARC contains a manual providing an introduction to CA along with a step-by-step description of how to collect, ...
The SPPARC resource pack (Locket al. 2001) includes an example of an eight-session intervention with video examples and suggestions for handouts. Intervention with SPPARC may be adapted for both particular pairs and for group settings.
SPPARC: Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships & Conversations
Two CAbased interventions are CAPPA and Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversation (SPPARC; Lock et al. 2001). CAPPA has been used successfully to treat a man ('J.B.') with fluent aphasia as a result of ...
Thus, programmes such as Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversation (SPPARC; Lock et al. 2001) use conversation analytic techniques to help clinicians identify for the partners of aphasic individuals ...
Regarding WHO grades, gliomas may vary from nonmalignant grade I (e.g., pilocytic astrocytoma) to highly aggressive grade IV, such as glioblastoma (McNeill, 2016). Low-grade gliomas (LGG; grades I and II) represent approximately 15% of ...
If progress is minimal then the focus can be on times when the problem is less acute, or looking at how clients have managed to persevere both now and in the past. The 'flow' of a session (Iveson, 2002) allows for information gathering ...
This book is written by a team of speech and language therapists from The Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre.
Through this book, students will be introduced to design management, strategic design, service design, and experience design.