Purpose The purpose of this investigation was twofold: first, to establish predictability
measures between performances on the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination and …

Materials and Methods The diagnostic battery administered to a11 aphasic subjects
consisted of selected subtests of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, a question …

METHOD Two large research projects have recently resulted in the development of a new
measure of functional communication for use with adults who have aphasia. The first project …

The focus of research on aphasia has been directed toward the assessment of the aphasic
person's linguistic impairments. In contrast, there has been little attention given to the …

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of a method for measuring
the communication competence of global aphasic patients. A Communication Competence …

ABSTRACTS A variety of methods has recently been used to assess everyday
communication abilities in aphasic adults. This study compares three such methods for their …

The traditional evaluation of aphasia has been more concerned with reading, writing,
speaking, and listening to speech than with central linguistic processing. In order to increase …

A questionnaire was devised to assess functional communication skills in aphasic patients.
A Guttman scaling procedure based on results from 71 aphasic stroke patients and validated …

This study used linear regression to define the relationship between pragmatic performance
and functional communication by 27 individuals with aphasia, including 14 with fluent …

An initial step in a pragmatic analysis of communication is to gain an understanding of the
differences between linguistic and pragmatic competence. There are some distinct …