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j) Communication Disability Profile

The Communication Disability Profile is a tool to enable people with aphasia to express their views and experience of what life with stroke and aphasia is like for them.

This tool is ideal for outcome measures, joint decision making and goal setting. Each CDP includes a comprehensive user manual, a detailed, accessible picture resource for conducting the profile, accessible and culturally diverse rating scales and twenty five copies of the interview form and scoresheet for compiling interview responses (more can be purchased separately). See link on right.

Sample pages: Download (1.66MB)

'I find the CDP extremely interesting and with great potential for filling a long felt need', Martha Taylor Sarno, Aphasiologist

'The CDP is an invaluable clinical tool - it provides structure and direction in what, for me, has been an ad hoc and nebulous area of assessment', Alison Greenwood, Clinician

'The CDP has the potential to become that elusive outcome measure that researchers seek to ivestigate the real-life impact of therapy', Wendy Best, Therapist Researcher

This resource gives you everything you need to measure aspects of living with aphasia for that person, at that time.

It provides:

• information that supports joint decision-making (and goal-setting)
• enables the person to express the impact that aphasia has had on his/her life, regardless of his/her access to spoken or written language
• enables discussion about identity as a person living with aphasia
• allows you to explore how external factors (including other people) affect life with aphasia.

‘the CDP provides a rich source of information on individuals’ views about their aphasia and its impact on their lives.  Both clinically and in research this wider picture is crucial.’ Best, Greenwood, Grassly, Hickin 2008 International Journal of Communication Disorders

'The CDP has enhanced our assessment and understanding of our patients’ abilities'                                
Merridy Moore, Speech and Language Therapist,  Northwick Park Hospital

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