Transmute: finding pathways through aphasia

Aphasia is a communication disorder that affects a person's ability to speak, read, write and understand language. Research has shown that aphasia can greatly affect mental health, causing higher rates of depression, stress and isolation in the lives of people with aphasia. This educational documentary focuses on telling the stories of real lived experiences of 4 individuals with aphasia and 3 caregivers/spouses of people with aphasia, and bridges the fields of psychology and speech, language and hearing sciences. It highlights the Western Washington University speech, language and hearing clinic's aphasia group and provides expertise from clinicians and staff that work at work there. This documentary was created with the goal to humanize communication disorders and spread awareness of aphasia. [Supporting materials for the documentary are included as supplementary files with this page.]