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

As an analytic paradigm, qualitative research offers much to clinical speech-language
pathology. This paradigm has a long history of use in the social sciences, and it is well …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the
assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore …

Background: Aphasia has very serious consequences for speech production and, hence, for
communication in daily life. Nevertheless, in the standard diagnostic procedures and in …

Much of the recent literature in the field of stuttering has a primary reliance on experimental
designs and quantitative analysis. Since human communication is complex and …

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

Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or
traumatic brain injury, that affects a person's ability to communicate effectively. The aim of …

Dementia: From Diagnosis to Management-A Functional Approach is a comprehensive
description of a functional and behavioral approach to assessing and treating persons with …

The purpose of this study was to examine an insider's perspective on communication in
multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease of the central nervous system in which scattered lesions or …