Purpose We sought to identify the core lexicon of a picture-description task using transcripts
from the AphasiaBank database and to determine differences in core-lexicon usage …

Background: Individuals with non‐fluent aphasia have difficulty producing syntactically
laden words, such as function words, whereas individuals with fluent aphasia often have …

Background: Proposition analysis of the discourse of persons with aphasia (PWAs) has a
long history, yielding important advancements in our understanding of communication …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to examine cross-linguistic differences in a picture-
description task between Korean-and English-speaking individuals with Broca's and anomic …

Purpose The purposes of this study are to provide clinicians and researchers with
introductory psychometric data for the main concept analysis (MCA), a measure of discourse …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between picture naming
performance and the ability to communicate the gist, or essential elements, of a story. We …

Background Although discourse‐level assessments contribute to predicting real‐world
performance in persons with aphasia (PWA), the use of discourse measures is uncommon in …

Background General consensus exists between clinicians as to the incorporation of
discourse outcome measures into language assessment for persons with aphasia (PWA) …

Evidence suggests that discourse-level assessment in aphasia should be implemented
within clinical settings. However, existing discourse measures that are time and labor …

Purpose Our goal was to evaluate an updated version of the “Cookie Theft” picture by
obtaining norms based on picture descriptions by healthy controls for total content units …