DementiaBank: Theoretical rationale, protocol, and illustrative analyses

AM Lanzi, AK Saylor, D Fromm, H Liu… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Dementia from Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized primarily by a significant
decline in memory abilities; however, language abilities are also commonly affected and …

Apragmatism: The renewal of a label for communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage

J Minga, SM Sheppard, M Johnson… - … journal of language …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled
nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are …

Language sample analysis with TalkBank: An update and review

B MacWhinney, D Fromm - Frontiers in communication, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This chapter examines state-of-the-art methods for coding, analyzing, and interpreting
discourse-level language data from children and adults with language disorders using the …

An analysis of right hemisphere stroke discourse in the modern cookie theft picture

SK Berube, E Goldberg, SM Sheppard, AZ Durfee… - American journal of …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Adults with right hemisphere damage demonstrate differences in connected
speech compared to controls, but systematic, quantitative methods to capture these …

Left hemisphere bias of NIH Stroke Scale is most severe for middle cerebral artery strokes

E Vitti, G Kim, MD Stockbridge, AE Hillis… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
NIHSS score is higher for left vs. right hemisphere strokes of equal volumes. However,
differences in each vascular territory have not been evaluated yet. We hypothesized that left …

The effects of right hemisphere brain damage on question-asking in conversation

J Minga, D Fromm, A Jacks, MD Stockbridge… - Journal of Speech …, 2022 - ASHA
Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can cause challenges with information
gathering. Cognitive processes aid in implicit and explicit information gathering, yet the …

Clinical guidelines for eliciting discourse using the RHDBank protocol

J Minga, MD Stockbridge, A Durfee, M Johnson - American journal of speech …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: Examining discourse after right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can provide
invaluable clinical data and insight into functional communication capabilities. Yet, clinicians …

Intersectionality of race and question-asking in women after right hemisphere brain damage

DK Fannin, J Elleby, M Tackett, J Minga - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Atypical pragmatic language can impede quality health care access. Right
hemisphere brain damage (RHD) results in changes in pragmatic language use; however …

Resting state correlates of picture description informativeness in left vs. right hemisphere chronic stroke

EL Meier, SM Sheppard, R Sebastian, S Berube… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Despite a growing emphasis on discourse processing in clinical neuroscience,
relatively little is known about the neurobiology of discourse production impairments …

Identifying Spatial Neglect in Chronic Right Hemisphere Stroke Survivors Using the RHDBank Outcomes

J Minga, T Rich, O Boukrina, P Chen, K Hreha - Journal of Speech …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: The chronicity of spatial neglect (SN) and the utility of existing diagnostic measures
used by speech-language pathologists remain poorly understood. In this retrospective study …