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Discourse in adults with aphasia is increasingly the focus of assessment and therapy research. A broad range of measures is available to describe discourse, but very limited information is available on their psychometric properties. As a result, the quality of these measures is unknown, and there is very little evidence to motivate the choice of one measure over another.

To explore the quality of a range of discourse measures, targeting sentence structure, coherence, story structure and cohesion. Quality was evaluated in terms of the psychometric properties of acceptability (data completeness and skewness), reliability (inter‐ and intra‐rater), and validity (content, convergent, discriminant and known groups).

Participants with chronic mild‐to‐moderate aphasia were recruited from community groups. They produced a range of discourses which were grouped into Cinderella …