Aphasia can globally or selectively affect comprehension and production of verbal and
written language. Discourse analysis can aid language assessment and diagnosis …

Purpose: to analyze the narrative, descriptive, conversational and procedural discourse of
fluent aphasic individuals and to compare their performance with healthy individuals …

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a degenerative syndrome that impairs cognitive
functioning, including speech and language. Discourse can be used to analyze language …

The language of adults with non-Alzheimer's dementias is still relatively unexplored. This is
problematic given that, in the absence of definitive biomarkers, linguistic features have an …

Fluent aphasia is a disorder affecting linguistic processing in persons who suffered a brain
damage. It is a syndrome gathering several typologies of aphasia and is less severe than a …

Background: Several studies have shown that traditional standardised aphasia tests may not
be sensitive enough to adequately assess linguistic deficits and recovery patterns in …

Individuals in the early stages of dementia may demonstrate language difficulties. The aim of
the study was an evaluation of the differences in narrative discourse abilities across two …

Purpose This study investigated which of the three analytic approaches of oral discourse,
including linguistically based measures, proposition-based measures, and story grammar …

Purpose: to investigate the use of the reported speech by a person with aphasia in a
narrative about stroke. Methods: qualitative perspective of analysis based on interactional …

Purpose: to investigate discourse in Alzheimer's disease (AD) using a picture narrative task;
to examine possible difficulties in the expression of knowledge and the relationship between …