The familiar caregiver and aphasic subject expectations about the rehabilitation process: implications to the clinic management in the Language Clínic with aphasics.
Aphasia; familiar caregiver; aphasic; rehabilitation; expectations
Aphasias are symptomatic language conditions resulting from brain injuries caused by cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), tumors, and traumatic brain injuries, among others. It imposes itself abruptly and devastatingly, affecting the speaker and those living with him. The direction of life has changed, and due to the impairment in language, social relationships – established through dialogue – have become more difficult. Often, those involved in the aphasic person's daily life assume responsibility for specific care. A severe crisis is created in the family nucleus due to the incidence of aphasia. It is not surprising, therefore, that great expectations are placed on the rehabilitation process. It turns out that aphasic patients and family caregivers have to deal with the fact that returning to the condition prior to the neurological injury is not possible. However, the treatment produces changes, that is, improvements in the speech and speaking condition of the affected subject. Given this, the present study seeks to analyze the implications of the expectations of two aphasic subjects and their family caregivers regarding clinical management in the Language Clinic with aphasic patients. To this end, the strategy chosen is elaborating two case studies, analyzing data from speech therapy records as a reference, and conducting in-depth interviews with the two aphasic patients and their respective familiar caregivers.