Abstract
This case study categorized the meaning of "aphasia" as it was constructed in the narrative of an individual with
aphasia who was said to have adapted to his disability. The informant was a man in his 50s who had sustained aphasia
for seven years. The researcher collected data using formal and informal interviews and conducted a qualitative
analysis, focusing on the "meaning of aphasic conditions." Five categories of the meaning emerged: "aphasia as
negative changes of self," "aphasia as a temporary condition," "aphasia as a target of challenge," "aphasia as a shared
attribute," and "aphasia as a social theme." It seems that these categories reflected the informant's images of himself
and the world, which had developed in the above order in his lifestory over time. Also, the categories themselves, being
used in his self-presentation, constituted a specific structure that involves his multiple self-images. The meaning of
aphasia, which increasingly becomes multi-layered as one adapts to one's disability, can be a channel through which
one can see the lived experience of a person with aphasia.
