Study I: Strangers vs. Familiar Partners
Peer: “Perhaps if it were your spouse as opposed to a stranger, you’d have more sympathy and could work it out a day at a time. You go to visit [a person you don’t know] and you struggle in a conversation, after a while you get exhausted. I mean in a relatively short time.”
Family: “When I meet [my loved one], I want to talk to him. But if I meet somebody at the corner of an intersection who has aphasia and this person is trying to communicate with me and I’m having difficulty, I would prefer one of the [AAC] methods.”