Autonomy and empowerment in aphasia assessment and therapy: Isn't it the road more travelled?

摘要: Abstract In the lead article, author expresses her serious concerns regarding state-of-the-art in functional assessment and treatment of aphasia. She offers social models literacy disability, which are referred to as ‘radical approaches’, a means addressing this current dilemma aphasia rehabilitation. reading one senses that clinical aphasiologists have been down road before. Back 1977, Holland discussed issue functionality therapy by recommending utilization contextualized-based strategies treatment, thus emphasizing ‘real-worldiness’ (p. 168) notion. Since time, (1977, 1982, 1991) others espoused need for, well virtues of, approaches (Aten 1994, Blomert 1990, Chapey 1986,1992, Code Muller 1989, Davis Wilcox 1981,1985, Frattali 1992, Wertz 1988, Leiwo Lesser 1985, 1991, Lubinski 1981, Newhoff ...