How to Help at Home: Speech Therapy Activities for Aphasia

Lots of family, friends, and caregivers ask, "How can I help with speech therapy after a stroke?" or "What can I be doing at home to help my loved one with aphasia?" This video has some ideas for speech therapy tasks that can be done at home. It starts with the easiest level for people with global aphasia or very severe aphasia and increases the difficulty level in small steps for people with more mild or moderate aphasia. The very first tasks are non-linguistic, meaning there is no language involved. Then, talking, reading, and writing are incorporated in later steps.

To make the task more difficult, you can increase the number of objects on the table. You can also use objects that are used with a very specific hobby or activity of your loved one (ex: "bobbin" for someone who likes to sew, or "jig" for someone who likes to fish).

Materials:
Objects that are interesting/meaningful to the person with aphasia
Notecards
Pencil and paper OR dry erase board and marker
Bananagrams letter tiles (https://a.co/d/60tWxU8)

Activities:
Matching two of the same item
Repeating the name of the object
Matching the written word to the object
Copying the name of the object
Unscrambling letters to write the name of the object
Writing the name of the object

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