Aphasia Target Goals

Target Goals/Outcomes: The patient was a 75-year-old male who had a stroke and afterwards been diagnosed with aphasia. This means that during this session the clinician would be working on both speech and language. The target goals/ outcomes for this client was to strengthen the face muscles and speech sounds to increase the client’s intelligibility.

What strategies/methods/materials were used to help the client achieve the goals? The session started off with the clinician having D.R to try out some oral facial motor exercises. The clinician’s focus in these exercises was to strengthen the tongue, lips, and jaw. Several different exercises were performed on each of the listed. As the client was performing the exercises, the clinician was

What were the most interesting elements of this session? Aphasia is a very interesting disorder and therapy is always different for each patient as no two patients are the same. What interested me the most in this session would have to be the use of a white-board in the session, as it is something I have never seen a clinician use before. It was also interesting to see all the objects that the clinician had brought in for the D.R during the session. We are taught all about age appropriate materials when it comes to clients and it was helpful to see how to do that for this client.

What would you have done differently? The client did a great job with being very patient with the client and encouraging all throughout the session. One thing I may have performed differently would be to work on less phonemes. The clinician introduced four in one session and I believe that it may have been difficult for the client to understand and separate them. As the client was having trouble producing sounds in isolation, I may have tried a different approach with having the client produce the phonemes in syllables to try and make it easier for him to hear and give him more to go