Friendship and Aphasia
  • Welcome
  • About the research
  • About Us
  • About friendship and aphasia
  • Friendship research days
  • Art and poetry
  • Ideas and resources
  • Stories of friendship
  • Presentations
  • Links
  • Contact Us

Welcome to the Friends, Friendship and Aphasia Research Project

Aphasia is a communication disability affecting about one third of people who
have a stroke. Many people live with profound, long term effects of aphasia on
their language, their life and their relationships.
Find out more about aphasia

Aphasia and friends

"She, she just knows me. Erm, she doesn’t judge or she doesn’t, erm, she has
always been there for me and erm, … we had fun together and that’s about it
really."

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Research shows that having a good network of friends and social support can  be  very helpful after a stroke or head injury. But very little is known  about  friendships and aphasia. 

"I think my friends are my anchor, my anchors."



This website tells you about the Friendship and Aphasia Research Study. 

We hope the project and the project findings will be useful to:
  • people living with aphasia
  • their friends and family members
  • health and social care staff who work with people who have aphasia
  • researchers
  • policy makers

PhD Project

The project was part of a PhD research project based at Brunel University.

Carole Pound  co-ordinated the research. Carole worked with a team of people with aphasia. 
Meet the team here

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