Preliminary findings from an ongoing investigation of the potential relationship between
narrative discourse performance and executive functions in adults with traumatic brain …

Background: Story grammar is a super-structural measure of discourse performance that has
shown to be sensitive to the deficits seen following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Narrative …

ABSTRACT Primary Objective: To investigate the nature and patterns of narrative discourse
impairment in people with severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) during early recovery …

Personal narratives serve an important function in virtually all societies (Peterson & McCabe,
1991). Through narratives individuals make sense of their experiences and represent …

This paper describes the narrative discourse abilities of a group of severely traumatically
brain injured (TBI) speakers at two intervals post-injury. At initial assessment (between 3 and …

Recent investigations have documented a variety of discourse deficits following traumatic
brain injuries (TBI). However, there is a paucity of information relating to the treatment of …

Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and postconcussive syndrome can result in difficult to
document complaints regarding subtle language use. Narrative discourse production has …

Background: This study examined the utility of story “goodness”, a measure of organisation
and completeness, in quantifying narrative discourse deficits following traumatic brain injury …

Background: Although there is general agreement regarding the clinical utility of discourse
analyses for detecting the often subtle communicative impairments following closed head …

Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often show impaired linguistic and/or narrative
abilities. The present study aimed to document the features of narrative discourse …