| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Aphasia restricts language function and communication ability and causes various psycho-social problems. It is essential that people in the community communicate efficiently with people with aphasia. Unfortunately, few programs for conversation partners exist now. This study summarized the knowledge and ways of thinking for conversation partners and examined guidelines for training curriculums.
Ten volunteers and a man with aphasia were asked to get to know each other. By using communication strategies which were present in the discourse, they could communicate and build social relationships. Six volunteers and 2 individuals with aphasia were videotaped in conversation. ‘Good' versus ‘poor' communication strategies of partners were identified. As a result of these two studies, the skills and strategies of partners were clarified because communication was a collaborative achievement of the participants.
As a result of these studies, we aimed to build the guidelines for training curriculum
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s for conversation partners. At first, as we held 3 training courses for volunteers who work for adults with aphasia in the community, we presented the summary of these courses, responses of the participants, and activities of the volunteers' group that was formed following the first training course. Secondly we summarized the knowledge and ways of thinking which are necessary for a conversation partner, and examined guidelines for training curriculums.
Moreover, social interaction between adults with aphasia and the partners were analyzed by Kagan's measures(1999). Finally, we provided the programs for partners who had been working at medical facilities, and three people who participated in the program communicated with aphasic adults before and after the program for comparison.
In order to communicate adequately, it is hoped that partners have more opportunities to engage in conversation with people having aphasia, and speech therapists, referring to these guidelines, should train partners individually. Less
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