When we think about aphasia, we often immediately think about speech skills. But aphasia affects all of the language modalities, including 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨. When someone has difficulties with reading following a stroke or other neurological event, this is referred to as 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐚.

Crafting patient-centered goals in aphasia treatment can be difficult. This can be due to lack of time for SLP’s to plan/productivity demands, clients not feeling comfortable yet navigating the neurorehab landscape, and the difficulty in defining goals given the aphasia itself. Though both clinicians and people with aphasia report wanting to create more collaborative goals, the process to doing so can be tricky. Thankfully, Katarina Haley and colleagues have developed the FOURC Model (Haley, de Riesthal, Barry, and Cunningham, 2019).