Background Spoken discourse is a fundamental form of communication, yet often disrupted
in persons with aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders. It follows that …

Purpose Spoken discourse analysis is commonly employed in the assessment and
treatment of people living with aphasia, yet there is no standardization in assessment …

Purpose The heterogeneous nature of measures, methods, and analyses reported in the
aphasia spoken discourse literature precludes comparison of outcomes across studies (eg …

Discourse (a unit of language longer than a single sentence) is fundamental to everyday
communication. People with aphasia (a language impairment occurring most frequently after …

Dietz and Boyle ask if we have reached a tipping point in regard to systematizing discourse
measurement in aphasia research. We agree that research into aphasia and discourse has …

Background: Over the past few decades, clinical aphasiologists have increasingly included
various measures of discourse, across a variety of genres, to assess treatment effects and to …

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 …

Discourse Analysis in Adults With and Without Communication Disorders: A Resource for
Clinicians and Researchers provides state-of-the-art information about discourse analysis …

Background: Linguistic discourse analysis is an assessment method widely applied within
aphasia research literature to examine impairments as they affect the language of daily …

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 …