SPPARC: Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships & Conversation

SPPARC highlights the importance of working with partners in order to create real-life change both for partners and for people with aphasia. The SPPARC pack consists of a manual, CD-ROM and DVD and provides: Practical resources to run support and conversation training programs either for groups of partners or for the partner and the person with aphasia together as a couple. Conversation assessment and treatment materials, photocopiable and printable (from the CD Rom) activities and handouts, as well as an introduction to conversational analysis. A DVD with 27 extracts of everyday conversations between several people with aphasia and their partners, which can be used as a resource both for assessing everyday conversation and for facilitating change.