Contextual Constraint Treatment for coarse coding deficit in adults with right hemisphere brain damage: Generalisation to narrative discourse comprehension

ML Blake, CA Tompkins, VL Scharp… - Neuropsychological …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Coarse coding is the activation of broad semantic fields that can include multiple word
meanings and a variety of features, including those peripheral to a word's core meaning. It is …

Generalisation of a novel implicit treatment for coarse coding deficit in right hemisphere brain damage: A single-participant experiment

CA Tompkins, VL Scharp, KM Meigh… - Aphasiology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background: This manuscript reports generalisation effects of Contextual Constraint
Treatment for an adult with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Contextual Constraint …

A novel, implicit treatment for language comprehension processes in right hemisphere brain damage: Phase I data

CA Tompkins, MT Blake, J Wambaugh, K Meigh - Aphasiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Background: This manuscript reports the initial phase of testing for a novel,“Contextual
constraint” treatment, designed to stimulate inefficient language comprehension processes …

Coarse coding and discourse comprehension in adults with right hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins, VL Scharp, KM Meigh, W Fassbinder - Aphasiology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension
difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic …

Constraint induced language therapy in early aphasia rehabilitation

M Kirmess, LM Maher - Aphasiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Constraint induced language therapy (CILT) focuses on improving acquired
expressive language deficits after stroke by applying intensive, use-dependent treatment …

Theoretical considerations for understanding “understanding” by adults with right hemisphere brain damage

CA Tompkins - … on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and …, 2008 - ASHA
This article reviews and evaluates leading accounts of narrative comprehension deficits in
adults with focal damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD). It begins with a discussion …

Narrative and procedural discourse production by severely aphasic patients

M Weinrich, D McCall, KI Boser… - … and neural repair, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Five chronically aphasic subjects were trained on a computerized iconographic
communication system (C-VIC). Their performance in producing single sentences, scripts …

The effect of a sentence comprehension treatment on discourse comprehension in aphasia

S Kiran, C Des Roches, S Villard, Y Tripodis - Aphasiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background: While it is well understood that individuals with aphasia have difficulty with
discourse comprehension, very few studies have examined the nature of discourse …

Cognitive treatments of sentence processing disorders: What have we learned?

CC Mitchum, ML Greenwald… - Neuropsychological …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Several cognitive neuropsychological studies describing treatments of sentence processing
disorders have been reported in recent years. We review the outcome of 10 studies that …

Treatment of sentence comprehension and production in aphasia: is there cross-modal generalisation?

A Adelt, S Hanne, N Stadie - Neuropsychological rehabilitation, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Exploring generalisation following treatment of language deficits in aphasia can provide
insights into the functional relation of the cognitive processing systems involved. In the …