iRehab: Incorporating iPads and Other Tablets in Aphasia Treatment

I am just going to let this issue of Seminars in Speech and Language speak for itself. It is a clinical cornucopia of iPad (Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA)/tablet ideas for clinicians in practice. To all but the Luddites among us, even the most technologically timid are aware that the practice of treatment in adult neurogenic communication disorders is being deeply (and to my view, positively) affected by technology, most particularly by advances in tablet and iPad technology and its thunderous appearance in the world of rehabilitation for aphasia and related disorders. This issue should comfort beginners among us.

I believe this issue is almost a handbook concerning how to use iPad/tablet technology to track test results, home practice, and follow-up and how it can be applied seamlessly into group and individual treatment in a principled way. That means to enhance our treatment and to maximize the quality of life with aphasia. Virtually every one of these articles reminds us that, however thoroughly we absorb its information, we must do so with an eye to future technological changes, improvements, advances, and so forth. That is the reader's responsibility. But I feel pretty sure that that this issue will serve readers as a guidebook that outlasts the advances that are sure to come.