Journal Reviews

Humour to improve clinician - patient interactions

7 January 2020 | | Speech and Language Therapy | aphasia, language disorder, pragmatics, social interaction, stroke

This study examined the role of humour employed by the speech language graduate student during their one-on-one therapy sessions with people with aphasia (PWA). The students used humour to soften the errors made by the clients; to equalise interactional power;...

Socially appropriate part 1: assessing people with TBI

1 September 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy | assessment, pragmatics, social communication, traumatic brain injury

Social communication disorders are one of the most common and yet most under-addressed sequelae of a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Yet speech and language therapists report a lack of assessment tools and a lack of time to fully assess these...

Socially appropriate part II: therapy for people with TBI

1 September 2019 | | Speech and Language Therapy | Social communication, pragmatics, speech-language pathology, traumatic brain injury, treatment

Social communication is a complex behaviour comprising social and cognitive communication skills. Providing speech and language therapy (SLT) interventions for people with social communication difficulties following traumatic brain injury (TBI) requires the clinician to understand how ingredients from an evidence-based...