What is it about?
Stories are powerful tools in moving life forward with stroke and aphasia. This article explores the power of story in supporting persons with aphasia in navigating who they are and will be. The intent is to provide speech-language pathologists with background on how story and identity fit within the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia and to empower them to consider engaging in personal narrative coconstruction with their clients. The importance of relationship between clinician and client is emphasized. The PULSE framework is introduced as a foundation for supporting story and identity in clinical work. Evidence-based methods used to co-construct life stories with persons with aphasia are shared.
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Why is it important?
Stories can be transformational for people with aphasia in moving forward with life. Stories can help people see their aphasia as something they have, not something that they are. Using personal narratives in treatment is highly client-centered work and fits within the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia.
Perspectives
We hope to empower our SLP colleagues to explore the transformational power of story with their clients. Being open to receiving and supporting stories from our clients can make a significant impact on quality of life. As SLPs we don't always understand the power of story. We hope this Clinical Focus article inspires others to explore story work within their own practice.
Katie Strong
Central Michigan University
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This page is a summary of: The Power of Story in Identity Renegotiation: Clinical Approaches to Supporting Persons Living With Aphasia, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, April 2020, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2019_persp-19-00145.
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