Background: Studies employing item response theory methods to evaluate communicative
functioning assessment items have found that a broad range of communication tasks and …

Purpose: Behavioral intervention targeting speech, language, and communication concerns
is an established therapeutic approach for patients with communication concerns across a …

Background: Item banking, an approach to test development based in item response theory
(IRT), is beginning to be applied to the measurement of communicative functioning in …

Hula WD, Doyle PJ, Austermann Hula SN. Patient-reported cognitive and communicative
functioning: 1 construct or 2? OBJECTIVES: To examine the dimensionality of scales for …

The Aphasia Communication Outcome Measure (ACOM) is a patient-reported measure of
communicative functioning developed for persons with stroke-induced aphasia. It was …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the structure and measurement
properties of the Aphasia Communication Outcome Measure (ACOM), a patient-reported …

Objective: To develop and validate a clinically feasible measure of communication
effectiveness for people with any type of communication problem following stroke. Design …

Background: In assessing communication outcome in people following stroke, the emphasis
has moved from impairment to its consequent effects on functional activity and participation …

Objectives To (1) develop a systems-level quality improvement tool targeting communicative
access to information and decision-making for stroke patients with language disorders; and …

Background: Patient‐reported measures of communication difficulty and communication‐
related distress may be used to obtain efficient and valid indices of the functional …