Background: While it is well understood that individuals with aphasia have difficulty with
discourse comprehension, very few studies have examined the nature of discourse …

Purpose Prior studies of discourse comprehension have concluded that the deficits of
persons with aphasia (PWA) in syntactically based comprehension of sentences in isolation …

Purpose Two new treatments, 1 based on sentence to picture matching (SPM) and the other
on object manipulation (OM), that train participants on the thematic roles of sentences using …

Background: Many people with aphasia have impaired sentence comprehension. Previous
studies using factor analysis have suggested that a single factor accounts for performance …

Although the roles of verbal short-term and working memory on spoken sentence
comprehension skills in persons with aphasia have been debated for many years, the …

Background: Consistency of performance across tasks that assess syntactic comprehension
in aphasia has clinical and theoretical relevance. In this paper we add to the relatively …

Background: The application of word‐finding treatments for aphasia, as well as the study of
their effects, has typically centred on retrieval of single lexical items (Nickels,). Little is known …

Background: A consistent pattern of responding in a test of sentence comprehension has
been interpreted both as a direct reflection of the aphasic patient's ability to understand …

Exploring generalisation following treatment of language deficits in aphasia can provide
insights into the functional relation of the cognitive processing systems involved. In the …

Background: While evidence on the use of semantic therapy to improve word retrieval has
increased (Whitworth, Webster, & Howard,), the impact of semantic therapy on …