Social communication assessment after traumatic brain injury: A narrative review of innovations in pragmatic and discourse assessment methods

J Steel, L Togher - Brain Injury, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Social communication assessment after traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a
challenging area within speech-language pathology (SLP) clinical practice. Difficulties …

Assessment and treatment of cognition and communication skills in adults with acquired brain injury via telepractice: A systematic review

JJ Coleman, T Frymark, NM Franceschini… - American Journal of …, 2015 - ASHA
Purpose This is a systematic review of assessment and treatment of cognitive and
communicative abilities of individuals with acquired brain injury via telepractice versus in …

Revisiting the correct information unit: Measuring informativeness in unstructured conversations in people with aphasia

MC Leaman, LA Edmonds - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine whether the correct information unit
(CIU) can be reliably applied to unstructured conversational discourse in people with …

Towards efficient, ecological assessment of interaction: A scoping review of co‐constructed communication

M Carragher, Z Mok, G Steel, P Conroy… - … Journal of Language …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The complexity of communication presents challenges for clinical assessment,
outcome measurement and intervention for people with acquired brain injury. For the …

Facilitating authentic conversation: An intervention employing principles of constructivism and conversation analysis

J Damico, J Tetnowski, K Lynch, J Hartwell, C Weill… - Aphasiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The progressive interest in social activities within the life and clinical efforts of
persons with aphasia makes it necessary to focus more clinical attention on conversation as …

Assessing language in unstructured conversation in people with aphasia: Methods, psychometric integrity, normative data, and comparison to a structured narrative …

MC Leaman, LA Edmonds - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose This study evaluated interrater reliability (IRR) and test–retest stability (TRTS) of
seven linguistic measures (percent correct information units, relevance, subject–verb …

Enriching communicative environments: Leveraging advances in neuroplasticity for improving outcomes in neurogenic communication disorders

JA Hengst, MC Duff, TA Jones - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose Research manipulating the complexity of housing environments for healthy and
brain-damaged animals has offered strong, well-replicated evidence for the positive impacts …

Severe speech sound disorders: An integrated multimodal intervention

AM King, JA Hengst, LS DeThorne - 2013 - ASHA
Purpose: This study introduces an integrated multimodal intervention (IMI) and examines its
effectiveness for the treatment of persistent and severe speech sound disorders (SSD) in …

Hippocampal amnesia disrupts verbal play and the creative use of language in social interaction

MC Duff, JA Hengst, D Tranel, NJ Cohen - Aphasiology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Background: While the neural substrates and cognitive components of creativity have
received considerable attention in cognitive neuroscience, the creative use of language in …

Cohesion, coherence, and declarative memory: Discourse patterns in individuals with hippocampal amnesia

J Kurczek, MC Duff - Aphasiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Discourse cohesion and coherence gives our communication continuity.
Deficits in cohesion and coherence have been reported in patients with cognitive …