Expert group meeting on aphasia: A report

A multidisciplinary team of experts took stock of the current state of affairs about many aspects of aphasia in India, including community burden, diagnostic assessment, therapy, rehabilitation, research, education, and advocacy. The broad spectrum of aphasiology was matched by the types of particip...

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Published in:Annals of the Indian Academy of Neurology 2019-04, Vol.22 (2), p.137-146
Main Authors: Pauranik, Apoorva, George, Annamma, Sahu, Aparna, Nehra, Ashima, Paplikar, Avanthi, Bhat, Chitralekha, Krishnan, Gopee, Kaur, Harsimar, Saini, Jitendra, Suresh, P, Ojha, Pawan, Singh, Pinky, Sancheti, Pratap, Karanth, Prathibha, Mathuranath, P, Goswami, Satyapal, Chitnis, Sonal, Sundar, N, Alladi, Suvarna, Faroqi-Shah, Yasmeen
Format: Article
Language:English
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Action plans
AIAN Review
Analysis
Aphasia
aphasia in India
Clinical psychology
Conferences, meetings and seminars
Epidemiology
Information technology
Language
Linguistics
Medical research
Neuroimaging
Neurology
Physicians
Psychologists
Reading
recommendations
Rehabilitation
Speech
Speech therapists
Training
Verbal communication
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Summary:A multidisciplinary team of experts took stock of the current state of affairs about many aspects of aphasia in India, including community burden, diagnostic assessment, therapy, rehabilitation, research, education, and advocacy. The broad spectrum of aphasiology was matched by the types of participants ranging from neurologists, speech-language pathologists, clinical psychologists, linguists, to experts in neuroimaging and computer sciences. Threadbare discussion in 16 sessions over 3 days leads to the identification of pressing problems and possible solutions. Many action plans have been envisaged and recommendations made. A few examples with high priority are community-based and hospital-based study incidence and prevalence of aphasia, development of test batteries for the assessment of many components of speech and communication in Indian languages which are validated on rigorous psychometric, and linguistic criteria, national registry for aphasia, educational modules about aphasia for different target groups, resources for advocacy and its training, a bank of research questions and outlines of research protocols for young professionals to pursue. The expert group will continue to oversee execution of some of the actionable plans in short and long term.
ISSN:0972-2327
1998-3549
DOI:10.4103/aian.AIAN_330_18