Background: Since design and publication of the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB),
increasing use to assess patients with aphasia in a clinical and research setting in stroke …

Measurement of communication ability at the discourse level holds promise for predicting
how well persons with stable (eg, stroke-induced), or progressive aphasia navigate …

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

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 The concept of fluency is widely used to dichotomously classify aphasia
syndromes in both research and clinical practice. Despite its ubiquity, reliability of fluency …

Purpose In comparison to the large literature on moderate to severe aphasia, very little is
known about aphasia of the mildest severity and whether intervention may be warranted …

The current study respectively compares lexical richness, ie lexical diversity, density and
sophistication in research article manuscripts by Chinese PhD candidates (CPhD) …

Recently, a multilevel analytic approach called Main Concept, Sequencing, and Story
Grammar (MSSG) was presented along with preliminary normative information. MSSG …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the language
characteristics of people with latent aphasia using measures that examined temporal (ie …

Purpose: People with aphasia express that improved conversational discourse is a primary
rehabilitation goal. Discourse is usually assessed using monologue, such as a picture …