Episode 35: Past, Present, & Future of Aphasia Therapy with Audrey Holland, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA-F
“I just can’t see that speech and language therapy is anything but a relationship centered experience. So in a relationship, you gotta know somebody.”
Dr. Audrey Holland has made substantial contributions to our field and joins Leigh Ann to discuss the past, present, and future of Aphasia therapy with a special focus on person centered care. In today’s talk, we cover select aphasia assessments and therapy protocols that focus on what a person with Aphasia can do, rather than focusing on the deficits. Dr. Holland has had a prolific career and even attempting to cover a fraction of her work during today’s talk was challenging. There’s just so much! So dive into the show notes for access to more of Dr. Holland’s work.
“I just can’t buy the notion that we can fix language. I think we have to put language in the context of the person. If we don’t know the person, we’re going to be ineffective.”
This podcast is accompanied by an audio course offered for ASHA CEU credit by SpeechTherapyPD.com
Keep learning with these resources:
Dr. Holland’s articles and other publications
Counseling in Communication Disorders: A Wellness Perspective, Third Edition (2018). by Audrey L. Holland & Ryan L. Nelson.
The counseling skills introduced in this book are based on the model of positive psychology, a rapidly growing branch of psychology that focuses on mental health and well-being and how to achieve and maintain these states. By incorporating the key elements of positive psychology into clinical practice, clinicians can more effectively help patients live productively and successfully with their communication disorders. The authors offer examples, exercises, and specific techniques for working with individuals and their families across the spectrum of communication disorders, from infancy through end-of-life needs. In addition, they also feature one-on-one activities and model workshop examples for use in teaching counseling strategies to groups or classes.
resources mentioned in the episode:
SCCAN: Scales of Cognitive Communicative Ability for Neurorehabilitation
CADL-3: Communication Activities of Daily Living - 3rd edition
AphasiaAccess has a PODCAST! And Dr. Holland was the guest on episode #9!
AphasiaBank and the Famous People Protocol
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986): (book described by Dr. Holland)
Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children. Sylvia found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. How could she build a bridge that would enable them to take hold of the great joy of reading? Ashton-Warner devised a method whereby written words became prized possessions for her students.
Dr. Martin EP Seligman & Authentic Happiness website at the University of Pittsburgh
A whole bunch of questionnaires! OMG, I love quizzes. You’ll just need to register (free).
image from: https://slhs.arizona.edu/file/252
Audrey Holland, Ph.D., CCC/SLP, BC-ANCDS, is Regents’ Professor Emeriti of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at The University of Arizona. She has served on the Advisory Council for the US National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIH). She is currently a member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and Special Disabilities, US Department of Veterans’ Affairs. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Communication Disorders, and a recipient of the Honors of the American Speech, Language, & Hearing Association. She received the Clinical Achievement Award from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, as well as the Professional Achievement Award from the Council of Graduate Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She has published over 145 research articles, book chapters, and reviews, in addition to editing three books.
Since retiring, she has tried to be her own role model for successful aging. She has undergone extensive training as a life coach, first with Coach Training Alliance, and then as a student in authentic happpiness coaching, under the direction of Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman.
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