Table 2.

Coding Process Examples

Quote	Initial Codes	Final Code	Theme
“Our family is widespread…They were able to find a couple of people that were willing to work with us until the outpatient therapy was able to get us in with their speech therapist.”	Instrumental for advocacy, implementation, caregiving; caregivers as advocates	Caregivers as advocates	Family/Caregivers serve as advocates for stroke survivors with aphasia
“I want to work, I want to go to work again, I want this one. And so they were talking like okay every day let’s try this sentence and do it again and do it again. And so I went two days therapy and my sister on Thursday, Friday -- not Friday, Saturday at my sister’s house for two hours my sister would, you got it, you got it, and I do it now.”	Family pushes and encourages; caregivers as cheerleaders; caregiver support	Family/caregiver as motivator	Family/Caregivers serve as motivators during the rehabilitative process