Effects Of Tablet Based Rehabilitation On Clients With...

The Effects of Tablet Based Rehabilitation on Clients with Broca’s Aphasia based up the Profile of Functional Activities and Life Participation (PFAP) Brittany Stemmle 10/13/2016 The Effects of Tablet Based Rehabilitation on Clients with Broca’s Aphasia based up _the Profile of Functional Activities and Life Participation (PFALP) Statement of Problem Aphasia affects a person’s ability to communicate because of brain damage. Brain damage can affect comprehension and production (Damasio, 1992). However, a exclusively expressive language interruption, which includes both written and oral language, is known as Broca’s aphasia. The non-fluent speech a client with Broca’s aphasia experiences includes difficulties in the grammatical aspect of language, although language comprehension remains moderately intact (Vandenborre Marià «n, 2014). Due to the current limitation of therapy resources, Speech- Language Pathologists and clients are directly affected by the clinical dilemma. This makes it very difficult to provide the necessary treatment for clients with aphasia. It is believed that advances in technology designed specifically for treatment of aphasia will create opportunities to provide frequent and intensive treatment at a low cost (Palmer, 2015).It is important to remove the barriers that people with aphasia experience in order to reduce the effects of disability and a happy successful life (Hilari, 2011). According to Brandenburg et al 2013, the influence