Book excerpt: Here is a long-needed guidebook to aphasia rehabilitation for the family of the aphasic individual to use during treatment and afterward. The principal section provides an extensive collection of speech and language stimulation activities designed to increase interaction and understanding between the patient and his family. There are exercises for family members to use with the patient throughout the day, outside of the formal treatment setting, in the areas of memory, non-verbal communication, money, numbers, reading, repetition, spelling, speech, understanding, and writing. Additional sections provide: (1) a listing and discussion of easily obtainable materials--games, consumer products, and aids--which family and friends can use to entertain or to socialize with the patient; (2) a compilation of community resources to help answer family questions about finances, transportation, recreational activities, counseling, home nursing care, and many other individual problems; (3) an annotated bibligraphy of selected reading materials chosen specifically for family members who want a clearer understanding of stroke and aphasia. Susan Howell Brubaker, M.S., CCC-SP, is coordinator of aphasia rehabilitation in the Speech and Language Pathology Department at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, and author of Workbook for Aphasia, which is now in wide use throughout the United States and Canada.