Background Communication between people with aphasia and their healthcare professionals (HCPs) can be greatly improved when HCPs are trained in using supportive conversation techniques and tools. Communication partner training (CPT) is an umbrella term that covers a range of interventions that train …

Many health education programs use progress tests to evaluate students’ progress in learning and to identify possible gaps in the curricula. The tests are typically longitudinal and feedback-oriented. Although many benefits of the progress test have been described in the literature, we argue that the acclaimed …

This thesis is about dilemmas, discretionary space and ethics in public welfare. In my position as a lecturer of ethics in socio-legal practices I am concerned with the way in which these practices open up to an ethical development of their professionals. Thus, this thesis is a search for the most fundamental …

Professionals in de sociale zekerheid kampen met dilemma’s op de werkvloer. Gedeelde reflectie in een open praktijkdialoog1kan goede en creatieve oplossingen stimuleren. Het gaat overheidswillekeur tegen en biedt de morele steun van een zorgvuldige besluitvorming. De begrippen situationele gelijkheid …

Background: Difficulty in communicating (due to aphasia) can have serious consequences for patients in health care settings. Communication Partner Training is effective for improving communication between people with aphasia and health care professionals. Aim and Objective: This study aims to evaluate …

Description of the contributions of students participating in the Honours Programme of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences in the development of a test for diagnosing word finding difficulties

Verkenning van het domein ‘Arbeidsintegratie’: Een beschrijving van enkele kenmerken van de sector ‘Arbeidsintegratie’, ten behoeve van het onderzoek ‘Meerwaarde gebruik alliantiemonitor in (semi) gedwongen kader’. Het Kenniscentrum voor Sociale Innovatie van Hogeschool Utrecht ontwikkelde voor verschillende …

Background: Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life (HRQL) scales is useful as it allows comparisons of therapy outcomes across different countries to be drawn. Aims: To adapt the English Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life—39 item generic stroke scale (SAQOL-39g) into Dutch. To …

Background: Lexical access problems of inflected verbs are common in aphasia. Previous research addressed these problems either in purely linguistic terms (e.g., verb movement) or in terms of lexical characteristics (e.g., frequency). We propose a new measure of verb complexity, which combines linguistic …

Depressie is een stemmingsstoornis die geregeld voorkomt bij afasiepatiënten na een CVA. De afasie kan het diagnosticeren van depressie bemoeilijken. Om depressie te diagnosticeren bij afasiepatiënten, kunnen er observaties over langere tijd gedaan worden aan de hand van de opgestelde DSM-5 criteria. …