Background: People with aphasia (PWA) and their families identify as their priority the ability
to use language at the discourse level in order to meet their daily communicative needs …

Background Discourse analysis procedures are time consuming and impractical in a clinical
setting. Critical to clinicians are simple and informative discourse measures that require …

Purpose Individuals with aphasia often report that they feel able to say words in their heads,
regardless of speech output ability. Here, we examine whether these subjective reports of …

Background: Discourse abilities play an important role in the assessment, classification, and
therapy outcome evaluation of people with aphasia. Discourse production in aphasia has …

Purpose A microlinguistic content analysis for assessing lexical semantics in people with
aphasia (PWA) is lexical diversity (LD). Sophisticated techniques have been developed to …

Purpose Spontaneous speech tasks are critically important for characterizing spoken
language production deficits in aphasia and for assessing the impact of therapy. The utility of …

Background: Discourse is a naturally occurring, dynamic form of communication. Coherence
is one aspect of discourse and is a reflection of the listener's ability to interpret the overall …

Background Language assessment includes mainly structured tasks; however, everyday
communication requires additional abilities. An important clinical question is whether the …

In this study, the connected discourse of 25 adults with aphasia was rated on the dimension
of “informativeness” by 11 unfamiliar listeners using a direct magnitude estimation (DME) …

Discourse is a highly individualized and complex speech act essential for effective
communication in daily life. Individuals with language disorders demonstrate impaired …