Aphasia Therapy Resources
Therapy resources to support speech and language therapists working with people with aphasia.
Expert knowledge
Our aphasia therapy resources draw on research into aphasia and aphasia therapy.
We combine this with the expert knowledge of a large group of specialist speech and language therapists. They work with the Tavistock Aphasia Centre, based at Newcastle University.
They offer high quality aphasia therapy resources to help therapy planning and delivery. The therapy resources focus on particular areas of language processing. They recognise the person’s individual needs and help communication.
Made for speech and language therapists
The therapy resources comprise a manual and online material. The manuals:
- provide theoretical background
- discuss approaches to assessment and treatment
- signpost the reader to the resources themselves
The resources are extensive and you can access them online. They cover two areas:
The Verb and Sentence resources focus on sentence processing. The offer particular emphasis on verb retrieval and sentence production.
The Auditory Processing resources focus on improving the auditory processing of single words.
Buying the resources
To buy packages, visit the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences online shop.
You can also send a purchase order to:
The Tavistock Aphasia Centre,
Speech and Language Sciences,
Newcastle University,
Queen Victoria Road,
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Who are the materials useful for?
Speech and language therapists will find these materials useful. They may also choose therapy tasks which are then administered by speech and language therapist assistants. They will also be ideal for independent use by people with aphasia.
They are useful for a wide range of people with aphasia, and we have broken the resources down into separate therapy packages.
Am I allowed to photocopy them?
Yes, and not only that, we encourage you to individualise them for a client. We designed the therapy tasks so that there is no further need for producing materials.
We also give permission to edit the materials to suit a particular client. You may also choose to use the therapy approach but to tailor specific lexical items for the individual.
How are they organised?
Each area is theory-motivated. The introductory section describes this in more detail. A brief review of therapy literature in that area is then given. We follow this by description of the actual therapy materials themselves.
Therapy materials are then provided with an extensive set of materials available to allow for extended practice.
Who helped produce these materials?
The Tavistock Trust for Aphasia funded the original project. We acknowledge their support and foresight in allowing us to develop these resources.
We want to acknowledge the many speech and language therapists from the North East area who have contributed.
Many speech and language therapists have worked within the Aphasia Centre and their contribution has been vital. The same is true of the undergraduate and masters level students on our programme.
Our biggest debt of gratitude is to the people with aphasia that we have worked with. We have learnt more from them than any text book could tell us.
I am someone with aphasia. Will these help me?
We intend for the therapy materials for speech and language therapists to use. If you are looking for work you can do yourself.
You should contact your speech and language therapist. You could also visit the Tavistock Trust for Aphasia's software finder.