Episode 41: Aphasia Support Groups with Elizabeth Wikane MS CCC-SLP, CBIS
How can you start an Aphasia Support Group in your facility? Tune in, because Elizabeth Wikane has done some serious research and then implemented it at her facility. Elizabeth provides phenomenal resources in her talk and paves the way for you to get organized and start an Aphasia Support Group in your facility.
topics covered:
1) methods of founding Aphasia support groups
2) justification for free community outreach in the context of large organizations
3) research to endorse the use of support groups
4) counseling techniques
5) interdisciplinary supplementation in support groups
6) cultural competency and acknowledgement of differences
7) supporting organizations: including materials, ideas for strategies and tools to incorporate into group practice, resources, and outreach
Keep learning with these resources:
International Aphasia Movement
Carl Rogers - Person centered counseling techniques
Ten Person-Centered Therapy Techniques Inspired by Carl Rogers (+PDF)
Carl Rogers' "Techniques" for Daily Life: 9 Steps to Living a More Integrated and Healthy Life
Person Centered Therapy & Ten Tips for Client-Centred Counsellors
Client Centered or Rogerian Counseling (+ links to videos to demonstrate counseling techniques)
Ted Baxter - Relentless: How a massive stroke changed my life for the better.
what does the literature have to say?
Tomaino, Concetta. (2012). Effective music therapy techniques in the treatment of nonfluent aphasia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1252. 312-7. 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06451.x.
Elman, Roberta. (2010). The Increasing Popularity of Aphasia Groups: Some Reasons Why. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders. 20. 120-124. 10.1044/nnsld20.4.120.
Lee, Jaime & Azios, Jamie. (2019). Facilitator Behaviors Leading to Engagement and Disengagement in Aphasia Conversation Groups. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology. 1-19. 10.1044/2019_AJSLP-CAC48-18-0220.
Nicholas, Marjorie. (2012). The Importance of Aphasia Community Programs in Supporting Self-Determination in PWA. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders. 22. 36. 10.1044/nnsld22.1.36.
Walker, Judy & Price, Karlee & Watson, Jana. (2018). Promoting Social Connections in a Synchronous Telepractice, Aphasia Communication Group. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. 3. 32. 10.1044/persp3.SIG18.32.
Elizabeth Wikane, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIS
Elizabeth is a medical speech-language pathologist in the Hudson Valley in New York State who works in a community hospital within a larger hospital system. She covers acute care, inpatient rehab, critical and intensive care units, out-patient services, and homecare services. She has a specialty in dysphagia including FEES, is an Ace-award recipient, and is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. She is passionate about her patients, their families, and educating the hospital team on all things related to communication disorders and life after trauma. She especially enjoys supervising graduate students whom she’s had the honor of working with over the past several years and is a guest lecturer in dysphagia at the graduate level. She is pursuing further advanced education towards dysphagia practice and is involved in medical device innovation.
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