Brooks Rehabilitation Aphasia Center Jacksonville Programs/Jacksonville Programs

Agenda

Community Aphasia Program: The BRAC community aphasia program provides an opportunity to connect with others with aphasia through interactive and creative programs, groups and activities  in a supportive community environment. This program encourages multi-modality communication techniques and increases confidence to help live successfully with aphasia and learn new ways to communicate. The program provides an aphasia-friendly environment to help build relationships with others with aphasia, families and communication partners.

The community program provides a matrix of coordinated group activities led by licensed speech-language pathologists. 

Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program:
This six-week intensive individualized program runs five days a week from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It provides an immersive rehabilitation experience that includes:

Comprehensive aphasia assessments and recommendations specific to communication goals
Evidence-based individualized therapy
Group and social communication groups
Community re-entry and life participation activities
Communication partner/family training and support
Outcome/improvement reports
Lunch daily (therapeutic language based lunch)
Integration of electronic programs and applications for computers, cell phones and tablets individualized to meet specific needs of the individual
Individualized home treatment, training, virtual aphasia groups and carryover home programs
This program is run by highly specialized, trained speech-language pathologists and is available to anyone with aphasia, regardless of the time post onset of their neurological event. Communication partner participation and training is an integral part of this program.