Purpose The heterogeneous nature of measures, methods, and analyses reported in the
aphasia spoken discourse literature precludes comparison of outcomes across studies (eg …

Purpose Spoken discourse analysis is commonly employed in the assessment and
treatment of people living with aphasia, yet there is no standardization in assessment …

Background Spoken discourse is a fundamental form of communication, yet often disrupted
in persons with aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders. It follows that …

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 Discourse in adults with aphasia is increasingly the focus of assessment and
therapy research. A broad range of measures is available to describe discourse, but very …

Background Discourse is fundamental to everyday communication, and is an increasing
focus of clinical assessment, intervention and research. Aphasia can affect the information a …

Background: Over the past few decades, clinical aphasiologists have increasingly included
various measures of discourse, across a variety of genres, to assess treatment effects and to …

Background: Linguistic discourse analysis is an assessment method widely applied within
aphasia research literature to examine impairments as they affect the language of daily …

Purpose Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate
language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify …

In their lead article, Dietz and Boyle (This issue) consider the evolution of discourse outcome
measurement in aphasia rehabilitation, positing an urgent need for standardisation. We are …