Abstract
Purpose To identify and analyze the impact of aphasia on social participation and daily activities of people affected by this disease, as well as to understand implications of environmental factors on limitations and restrictions of participation according to the criteria established by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Method Data presented and discussed were collected from 12 people of both sexes with aphasia participating in an Interdisciplinary Group for Coexistence. Data were collected between October 2011 and March 2013 and analyzed based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health checklist. Results All subjects had restrictions on performing and participating in their daily activities, either by biological, environmental or socio-cultural factors. Conclusions The restriction in participation was the most evident, mostly due to environmental factors than sequels resulting from the brain injury.
Highlights
Aphasias are language disorders caused by focal brain injuries; in terms of a Neurolinguistic guided by enunciative and discursive language theories, aphasias are alterations of language resulting from strokes, tumors, and traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
According to Morato, the quality of life of a subject with brain injury is proportional to the intensity of the impact of aphasia, which, in turn, depends on the cause of the injury and its extension degree, the characteristics of the subject, as well as the way they, their family, and their friends react against this language alteration[3]
The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of aphasias in social participation and in daily life activities of people affected by them, as well as to know the implications of environmental factors in the limitations and restrictions of participation according to the criteria established by the ICF
Summary
Aphasias are language disorders caused by focal brain injuries; in terms of a Neurolinguistic guided by enunciative and discursive language theories, aphasias are alterations of language resulting from strokes, tumors, and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). According to Morato, the quality of life of a subject with brain injury is proportional to the intensity of the impact of aphasia, which, in turn, depends on the cause of the injury and its extension degree, the characteristics of the subject (age, occupation, cultural interests, school education, humor, among others), as well as the way they, their family, and their friends react against this language alteration[3] Health professions such as, for example, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology and audiology have highlighted the motor (hemiplegia) and/or sensory (hemiparesis) impairments that, usually, accompany aphasias and cause abrupt changes in life style and in quality of life of the subjects affected, producing (greater or smaller) restrictions in order to fulfill instrumental and/or daily life activities, in family and/or magnified social interactions. These restrictions require a certain level of permanent care and health management[4]
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