SPPARC: Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships & Conversation

SPPARC highlights the importance of working with partners in order to create real-life change both for partners and for people with aphasia.

The SPPARC pack consists of a manual, CD Rom and DVD and provides:

• Practical resources to run support and conversation training programmes either for groups of partners or for the partner and the person with aphasia together as a couple.
• Conversation assessment and treatment materials, photocopiable and printable (from the CD Rom) activities and handouts, as well as an introduction to conversational analysis.
• A DVD with 27 extracts of everyday conversations between several people with aphasia and their partners, which can be used as a resource both for assessing everyday conversation and for facilitating change.

Theoretically validated through the 'Coping with Communicating' research project from University College London, SPPARC goes beyond the theory and provides a complete resource of clinically effective tools to work with people with aphasia and their communication partners.

Adult

Chapters

• Introduction
• How to Use this Resource Pack
• Introducing the Pack
• Efficacy of the Programmes
• Key to Terrminology, Abbreviations, Symbols, Signs and Design
• Background to the Support Programme
• Introducing the Support Programme
  • Providing Psychosocial Support for Partners: Rationale
  • Working with Partners in a Group Setting: Rationale
  • Providing Information: Rationale
• Carrying Out the Support Programme
  • Step 1: Preparation
  • Step 2: Facilitating the Group Evaluating the Programme
  • Step 3: Background to the Conversation Training Programme
• Introducing the Conversation Training Programme
  • Working on Conversation: Rationale
  • Using Conversation Analysis
• Working on Conversation: The Six Steps
  • Step 1: Preparation
  • Step 2: Recording the Conversation
  • Step 3: Preliminary Viewing and Transcription of Conversation
  • Step 4: Conversation Assessment The SPPARC Conversation Assessment
  • Step 5: Moving from Assessment to Training
  • Step 6: Conversation Training
• Case Study
  • Introduction to Sam and Connie
  • The Conversation Training Programme for Sam and Connie
  • Evaluation of Sam and Connie's Conversation Training Programme
  • Conclusion
• Appendixes