ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on ways to make a narrative approach to practice accessible for people with communication disability and explores how to make narrative accessible for people with communication disability. Due to the very nature of the impairment, people with communication disability may be at greater risk of not being responded to on occasions. The social meaning of brain injury and disability influences how the person and others make sense of it and accommodate it into daily life. The very nature of the impairment brought on by brain injury can compound the person’s sense of isolation and suffering. Communication abilities may be affected in many different ways following brain injury: aphasia, and dysarthria. The chapter focuses on primarily from working with people with aphasia. The temporal rules that govern “normal” communication contribute to the social exclusion of people with communication disability and particularly those with aphasia.
