Background: The functional evaluation of discourse informativeness is widely used in both
clinical practice and research, and impoverished and confused discourse has been …

Specialists in communication disorders who work with individuals who have traumatic brain
injury (TBI) often focus their rehabilitative efforts on the cognitive, social, and behavioral …

Primary objective: To establish a process whereby assessment of functional communication
reflects the authentic communication of the target population. The major functional …

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with pragmatic communication
difficulties that lead to difficulty in social interaction. Research on conversation abilities in …

I read with interest Steel et al.'s (2022) article in which they surveyed speech and language
therapists (SLTs) about their clinical practice assessing and treating spoken discourse in …

INTRODUCTION People who sustain moderate-severe traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) often
have impaired social communication skills which can decrease their quality of life because …

Purpose Return to competitive employment presents a major challenge to adults who
survive traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study was undertaken to better understand factors …

Researchers studying discourse after traumatic brain injury TBI increasingly recognize the
need to take account of variation within the non brain damaged NBD population in order to …

This chapter provides a brief overview of traumatic brain injury (TBI). It discusses the
cognitive‐communication disorders that tend to follow the injury. The chapter also discusses …

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the application of discourse analyses to the oral
verbal communicative behavior of traumatically brain-injured (TBI) adults. We begin with a …