Handout: Caregiver Communication Strategies

The Aphasia Therapy Bundle includes 350+ pages of printable activities, educational handouts, documentation examples, and more. Includes worksheets for receptive language, expressive language, written language. This bundle may provide helpful resources, treatment materials, and home practice for patients with aphasia. Each section provides ideas for treatment, sample goals, and cueing examples. Manipulate materials and personalize for your clients to promote individualized speech and language therapy.

Table of Contents

• Section 1. Informative Handouts and Strategies 
  1. What is Aphasia?
  2. Impacted Language Domains
  3. Caregiver Communication Tips
  4. Word Finding Strategies

• Section 2. Expression

1. 1. Gestures & Nonverbal Language
   2. Automatic Sequences
   3. Functional Phrases – Completion, Script Training, MIT
   4. Naming and Vocabulary
      1. Everyday Object Flashcards
      2. Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)
      3. Responsive, Divergent, and Generative Naming
      4. Symbols and AAC Communication Board
      5. Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST)
      6. Expanding Utterances

• Section 3. Comprehension 

1. 1. Auditory Comprehension
      1. Cueing Strategies
      2. Yes/No Questions
      3. Object Identification and Discrimination
      4. Following 1-Step Commands
   2. Reading Comprehension
      1. Word to Picture Matching
      2. Sentence Comprehension
      3. Paragraph Comprehension
      4. Functional Reading Comprehension – menus, notes, cards, labels, weather

• Section 4. Writing

1. 1. Numbers & Alphabet
   2. Words & Sentences
   3. Filling in Forms

• Section 5. References and Terms of Use