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Podcast: RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Episode: IJLCD - Developing and piloting a functional numeracy assessment for people with aphasia
Description: Please let us know what you think of this podcast.People with aphasia can have problems understanding or using numbers in everyday life - known as functional numeracy difficulties. However, testing this is hard because there are limited published assessments for functional numeracy difficulties for people with aphasia. This study aimed to explore, validate and pilot a wide-ranging, aphasia-friendly functional numeracy assessment to investigate how functional numeracy is impacted by aphasia severity and time pressure demands, and to explore predictors of PWA's functional numeracy.The paper is:W...