Requests to children by parents with aphasia

Background With an increasing number of young adult stroke survivors, there is a specific need to investigate how aphasia affects parenting. Raising child happens through interaction, and centrally involves requests, such as ‘go bed’, ‘sit still’. Aphasia may impede participation in interaction thus potentially also the possibilities make requests children – from wider perspective do parenting.Aims This study aims explore practices employed by parents with ask their or stop action during everyday interactions (e.g. mealtimes, games). The design systematically examined shed light on way deontic authority (the right direct another person’s future action) displayed aphasia.Methods & Procedures Using conversation analysis (CA), we carried out collection-based 46 request sequences 10 hours video recordings involving three (two mild one severe aphasia).Outcomes Results Stopping child’s be easier achieve than getting something, it requires less specification action. Furthermore, severity limit fine-tuning authority. persons adjust degree for example adding mitigating words, ‘a bit’. person uses that mostly show unmitigated using higher volume. Structured contexts, games offer resources all because they provide scaffolded interaction.Conclusions offers insights into allow hinder these perform engage parenting participate family life. Our findings suggest people could benefit training implement activities requesting rehabilitation.