Right brain damages can manifest deficits of communicative skills, which sometimes cause
an important inability. The communication impairments following a right hemisphere …

Background: It is estimated that approximately 50% of individuals who incur right‐
hemisphere damage (RHD) have subsequent communication disorders. Lexical‐semantic …

This paper is a version of a conference keynote that was intended to provoke a collective
debate about some of the issues concerning the effects of right brain damage (RBD) on the …

Background: Cognitive and communicative deficits frequently occur after damage to the right
cerebral hemisphere (RHD); However there is little available information regarding the …

Abstract seeks to correct an imbalance in the traditional view of language deficits associated
with brain damage/describes how communication ability requires the contribution of the right …

Nature and assessment of right hemisphere disorders Page 371 OBJECTIVES The reader will
be able to: 1. Define coarse semantic coding and identify two communicative forms or functions …

Clinical experience and the available literature, suggest that many right hemisphere patients
do not communicate adequately. Their speech has been characterized as copious and …

Right hemisphere damage impairs lexical processing, prosodic processing, and discourse
and pragmatics. Clinicians and researchers have observed that conversation is a …

Research and clinical efforts aimed at understanding and improving the communication
impairments associated with acquired right hemisphere damage (RHD) are hampered by …

Purpose To describe the current treatment research for communication (prosodic, discourse,
and pragmatic) deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage and to provide …