As some of you might remember, I put a post up last month about conversing with expressive aphasic patients.
A thank you to those who commented on it. You were absolutely right, the more practice I got in interacting with aphasic patients the more I felt comfortable in finding the right balance between helping them out finding the word or just waiting for the right word to come out. I also found with two of my patients that over the period of my placement I got a lot better in understanding their non verbal language and was able to adequately respond to it.
It has been a great experience and I think I just want to reinforce again that it is very important to take time to listen and make sure that what they say is really what they intend to say.
Edith
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I also would like to say,that i had a simillar problem in the past. The worse thing is when you get stressed out yourself,when you are trying to understand them, then you definetly can't understand anything they say. So definetly i agree with you, relax and take time to with a patient in order to understand them better.
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