Caregiver Education

Caregivers are an integral part of the recovery process! While the clients are hard at work in therapy, caregivers are also learning. Caregivers attend therapy sessions to learn how to best communicate with their loved one. SLPs may facilitate conversational coaching with the client and caregiver. Weekly educational seminars conducted by certified SLPs cover such topics as specifics about aphasia, how to enhance recovery, and how to design an intensive treatment program at home.

Examples of Caregiver Education sessions:

• Why Intensive therapy?
• Creating your intensive therapy schedule back home
• What is aphasia?
• Caregiver computer lab sessions
• Support conversation techniques + video
• Introduction to caregiver resource library
• Hands-on communication practice with client-caregiver
• Caregiver leisure activity