Purpose: This article reviews four discourse measures and examines whether they are
sensitive to impairments in people with both mild and severe aphasia. We also ask whether …

Purpose: People with aphasia express that improved conversational discourse is a primary
rehabilitation goal. Discourse is usually assessed using monologue, such as a picture …

Background: Although persons with aphasia typically have difficulty with the production of
language at the level of discourse, there is a paucity of reliable measurement systems to …

Ecologically valid outcome measures are crucial to thoroughly assess the efficacy of
language intervention in aphasic adults. In this regard, clinical researchers are, with …

Discourse has been defined as any language that is “beyond the boundaries of isolated
sentences”(Ulatowska & Olness, 2004, p. 300) and “a set of utterances aimed at conveying a …

Purpose Social approaches to intervention for aphasia are being increasingly employed to
address the functional communication barriers experienced by persons with aphasia. One …

Purpose: People with aphasia and their families want rehabilitation services that improve
real-world communication. Thus, clinicians and researchers have increased focus on …

Purpose Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate
language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify …

Our intention was to use this clinical forum to start a dialogue regarding the multitude of
discourse outcome measures currently used in studies of aphasia. Based on the …

Surveys of speech-language pathologists who work with people with aphasia indicate that
they view the large number of existing measures to be a barrier to using discourse analysis …