The spirit of resiliency, perseverance, and courage is one that resonates around the word.

("Gabby's Story," Giffords, 2021)1

In this issue of Topics in Language Disorders, Guest Issue Editor Dr. Rebecca Hunting Pompon invited authors to discuss personal variables that affect rehabilitation outcomes for people with aphasia. As guest editor, she invited authors to discuss topics such as biomarkers, resilience, motivation, and nonlinguistic cognitive processes in an effort to expand the field's knowledge beyond the focus of language factors that may influence outcomes.

First, Gravier et al. (2022) share an investigation of cortisol's relationship with response to an intensive speech-language intervention for people with chronic aphasia. Next, Diedrichs et al. (2022) discuss the results of their scoping review investigating the relationship between treatment response and nonlinguistic cognitive factors in people with aphasia. Hunting Pompon and Mach (2022) provide a review of the literature related to resilience, coping, and adaptation and treatment outcomes for people with aphasia. Similarly, Weatherill et al. (2022) conducted another scoping review focused on motivation and predicting treatment outcomes for people with aphasia. Finally, Engelhoven et al. (2022) share the results of an analysis of the respondent burden and readability of various patient-reported outcome measures for people with aphasia.

-Sarah E. Wallace, PhD, CCC-SLP

-Gary A. Troia, PhD, CCC-SLP

Co-Editors

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