Purpose: Adults with right hemisphere damage demonstrate differences in connected
speech compared to controls, but systematic, quantitative methods to capture these …

Background A growing body of literature has demonstrated the importance of discourse
assessment in patients who suffered from brain injury, both in the left and right hemispheres …

Abstract Background and Purpose Left hemisphere stroke often results in a variety of
language deficits due to varying patterns of damage to language networks. The Cookie Theft …

The clinical profiles of individuals with post-stroke aphasia demonstrate considerable
variation in the presentation of symptoms. Recent aphasiological studies have attempted to …

Purpose Discourse characteristics of adults with right hemisphere brain damage are similar
to those reported for healthy older adults, prompting the question of whether changes are …

Distinguished from nominal language, propositional language generation refers to the
spontaneous and voluntary aspect of language that introduces novel concepts to a specific …

Background Connected speech is often used to assess many aspects of an individual's
language abilities after stroke. However, it is unknown the degree to which elicitation …

Introduction: Adults with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are at risk for communication
disorders, yet studies exploring cognitive-communication performance are currently lacking …

BACKGROUND: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale is a widely accepted tool for
structured graded neurological examination of stroke or suspected stroke in the hyperacute …

Purpose Right-hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can affect pragmatic aspects of
communication that may contribute to an impaired ability to gather information. Questions …