Assessments of Aphasia: Practices and Challenges faced by Malaysian Speech-Language Therapists

Aphasia assessment is crucial in diagnosing aphasia, determining the extent of language impairment, and identifying factors that may support or restrict aphasia recovery to design an appropriate plan care for people with aphasia. Speech-language therapists (SLTs) play a major role conducting assessments. Little known about practices SLTs assessing low-resource regions. The present study aims identify among Malaysian related challenges, as well strategies improving assessments from SLTs’ perspectives. A total 32 SLT participants who have been practicing Malaysia completed online survey gather their background information, data pertaining challenges assessments, suggestions Descriptive analyses were conducted all numerical data. Suggestions analysed qualitatively using thematic content analysis approach. found be consistent certain aspects, but not all. Two identified: (a) linguistic barriers between clinicians clients/caregivers, (b) lack standardized tools evaluations. Participants suggested “Internal Strategies” “External practices. Keywords:aphasia; clinical practices; Malaysia; speech-language