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Purpose of the LPAA
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1. to minimize the effects of life barriers
2. to adjust feelings/attitudes about self and others 3. strengthen intr/inter personal communication 4. increase particiaption in activities of choice 5. Re-engagement in life 6. move away from deficit and remediation to inclusion and life participation |
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LPAA
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Life Participation Approach to Aphasia
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LPAA assessment focus
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1. focus on re-engagment from the initial assessment
2. assess impairment, but also how the person does w/ suppost |
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Aphasia and their support
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the relationship with others is the "core" of life challenges, stresses associated w/ aphasia' permanancy
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LPAA treatment and therapy
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- clinician works on compensation for language loss
- works on anything that is a barrier to life participation - goal is for participants to acknowledge and better accept life differences w/ aphasia and discover an unexpected value or merit in their altered forms |
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Who is included in LPAA?
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-communication partners in life
-the aphasic |
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LPAA environment training
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training the environment makes it more aphasia "friendly" and "supportive"
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LPAA therapist role
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- clinician takes the role of the communication partner
-clinicans also act as coach, problem solver or support person to overcome challenges |
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LPAA outcomes
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Client can:
1. become an active agent in determining their own direction and involvement in life 2. gain personal determination 3. gain immersion in real-life contexts and experiences 4. look to what is still possible for them |
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LPAA is ________ driven
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Consumer
-makes real life differences -minimizes concequences of disease and injury -permit to leave and re-enter Tx when a need arises |
