What It Captures
The map captures communication settings, partners, supports, barriers, participation links, target status, unresolved items, and practitioner notes.
Communication Environment Map
Communication Environment Map is a collaborative aphasia intervention-planning tool for speech-language practitioners and people with aphasia. It helps identify communication partners, settings, supports, and barriers so environmental targets can be selected for participation-focused care.
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Tool guide
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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
Shared Roles
The person with aphasia reports lived communication contexts; the practitioner facilitates mapping and selects clinical targets.
Relevant Limitations
The tool does not create partner-training protocols, environmental scores, or automatic intervention scripts.
Is this a social network map?
No. It maps the communication environment for aphasia participation planning, including partners, settings, supports, barriers, and targets.
Can one person or setting be both a support and a barrier?
Yes. The tool should allow context-specific notes when a partner or setting functions differently across situations.
Does the map rank targets automatically?
No. It organizes environmental factors and selected targets but does not add unsupported automatic priority rankings.
What carries over after saving?
The tool itself and selected representation mode are saved. Sample partners, settings, and demo targets do not become real client data.