Seven Aphasia Cueing Tips

Here are seven cues for helping someone with aphasia to find their words. I give examples for each cue. Thanks for watching!

[prejustha]

7 ways to cue
Semantic :describe what they want to say
Graphemic : what the first letter is
Phonemic :gives sound
Rhyming cue
Sentence completion
Giving them more information
Model

[umno]

When I talk to my grandma (she had a stroke about 2 months ago and now has broca’s aphasia) I can usually figure out what she’s trying to say because she’ll point to an object to give context and then I ask her what I think she means and if she says yes we work on that word together and she can typically get it when I help her sound it out and the look on her face when she finally gets it is priceless, she gets so excited and keeps saying it over and over like, “lamp, lamp, lamp! That’s a lamp!” It’s quite fun to watch.

[toni]

I wish you'd been around 38 years ago when my doctors ignored me and I had to do it all myself. I still get very stuck.

[mjp]

This is great! I had aphasia for six months after a traumatic brian injury. I feel like I'm 95% recovered but long words trip me up - like "individualism", etc. I'm one of the lucky ones. Thank you for your video!! Speech therapy was so helpful!

[margarettorres]

I’m a student studying Aphasia . Your video was helpful. Thank you.

[ivisaldana]

I needed help I didn't understand how to give cues. Your example and explanation made it clear. Thank you very much.

[withaz]

Thank you so much for putting these videos out! It’s incredibly helpful❤

[yesuratnam]

Madam you are very good speaker. Your advice and suggestions for aphasia patients are useful. And also you are looking very beautiful and gorgeous in this video

[rosalieholland]

I understand English and what people say. I can hear but I can’t speak😔I’ve met so many people who can’t accept me for what I have and it’s troubling.

[cnoevl]

Cueing aphasia starts with people to read individual words based on YouTube slowly giving grade school words in short videos. YouTube poster Complabteacher does this with vocabulary videos for children in various grades kindergarten through 4th grade, even though his videos are not mean for aphasia. Grade school videos are better to restart your memory just by giving brief sample of how to say words. It works for me so far in first months of stroke.

[maribenzo]

I think I have this when I turned 17 last year during the pandemic. I started to have a real bad problem butting sentences together, whenever I would talk it’s like I know what I want to say but when I spoke the words come out I be questioning myself weather I said my sentences correctly . And when I read I get so tongue tied

[warblur]

Thank you for sharing this. Rhyming will be good. Do you have information on anything art-therapy related for connecting with people suffering from wernickes aphasia? Blessings.

[sajidayasmeen]

How can I make my son speak he do not respond due to encephalitis

[abdullaibrahim]

Really, u are absolutely true how can I training language again faster, how?

[AlaaAlaa-erld]

I have same aphasia disorders but with no brain injury.what does this mean?

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[RosyMapleMoth]

How can you cue them when you don't even know what they want to say? It's been almost 9/12 yrs. post-stroke for my husband. The stroke was massive, he has every problem with speech you can have after a stroke. The therapist told us like 5? They said he would never walk or talk again. He walks, speech is spontaneous when he works on it. Keeping him motivated and working on it is the hard part. We are in our 60's, I don't have time to sit with him and be a speech therapist since keeping up with everything else takes all my time and energy. He has an Ipad that was set up for him with speech programs, getting him to use it is another story. He used it in the beginning but, gave up after a while.

[vanessammiller]

These are helpful, but for a person who has aphasia, people who have no idea what word I am trying to say cannot cue me. And I am someone who usually describes the word, but still nobody else can figure it out, which is most frustrating.

[janeofthefamilytaylor]

My brother can't pronounce many letters/ words but others are not too bad but he doesn't get any help with speech therapy because they take him saying no as gospel but we were told his yes and no answers wernt reliable because sometimes he uses both those answers to a question you'll ask him. He is only 48 and had his stroke when he was 43 but he also deals with medication for Schizophrenia which he was diagnosed with yrs before his stroke and that medication has some bad side effects where he has low mood, no motivation, depression, lathergy etc. It's so sad seeing him so isolated but he still wants his independence but he doesn't get a lot of support from his mental health team and we as his family for what we can for him but it's hard to watch him 24/7 as he's shut us out before for being too overpowering for him even though we are only trying to help and have his welfare at heart 😪

[lydiamartinez]

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