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 …

Our intention was to use this clinical forum to start a dialogue regarding the multitude of
discourse outcome measures currently used in studies of aphasia. Based on the …

Background: Discourse abilities play an important role in the assessment, classification, and
therapy outcome evaluation of people with aphasia. Discourse production in aphasia has …

Discourse (a unit of language longer than a single sentence) is fundamental to everyday
communication. People with aphasia (a language impairment occurring most frequently after …

Dietz and Boyle ask if we have reached a tipping point in regard to systematizing discourse
measurement in aphasia research. We agree that research into aphasia and discourse has …

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 …

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

In their timely and carefully structured manuscript, Dietz and Boyle (this issue) discuss the
need to develop a core outcome set for discourse (D-COS) research in aphasia. Their …

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 …

Current interest in discourse performance has been motivated by the explanatory power
provided by recent developments in discourse grammar. Discourse, unlike sentences, does …