Background: Impairment-focused aphasia treatment has an ultimate goal of improving
language production in connected speech and communication in daily life. Although …

Purpose: A primary goal of aphasia intervention is to improve everyday communication.
Although a large body of research focuses on treatment generalization, transfer of learning …

Background: Improved discourse production is a priority for all key stakeholders in aphasia
rehabilitation. A Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for aphasia found …

Discourse has been defined as any language that is “beyond the boundaries of isolated
sentences”(Ulatowska & Olness, 2004, p. 300) and “a set of utterances aimed at conveying a …

Background: The application of word‐finding treatments for aphasia, as well as the study of
their effects, has typically centred on retrieval of single lexical items (Nickels,). Little is known …

Background: Semantic feature analysis (SFA) is a treatment for lexical retrieval impairment
in which participants are cued to provide semantic information about concepts they have …

Background: Despite a growing literature characterising connected speech and discourse
impairments associated with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), intervention in PPA has …

Purpose: This article reviews four discourse measures and examines whether they are
sensitive to impairments in people with both mild and severe aphasia. We also ask whether …

In chronic aphasia, maximizing generalization of improved language abilities from clinical
tasks to everyday communication can require the same systematic planning process as the …

Analysis of the strategies used in narrative and conversational discourse enables a sensitive
evaluation of the deficit in mild aphasic patients and a possible alternative to the therapist …