Best practice guidelines for reporting spoken discourse in aphasia and neurogenic communication disorders

BC Stark, L Bryant, C Themistocleous… - Aphasiology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Spoken discourse is a fundamental form of communication, yet often disrupted
in persons with aphasia and other neurogenic communication disorders. It follows that …

A tutorial on core lexicon: development, use, and application

H Kim, HH Wright - Seminars in Speech and Language, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Evidence suggests that discourse-level assessment in aphasia should be implemented
within clinical settings. However, existing discourse measures that are time and labor …

Measuring word retrieval in narrative discourse: Core lexicon in aphasia

H Kim, S Kintz, K Zelnosky… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Discourse analysis procedures are time consuming and impractical in a clinical
setting. Critical to clinicians are simple and informative discourse measures that require …

Concurrent validity and reliability of the core lexicon measure as a measure of word retrieval ability in aphasia narratives

H Kim, HH Wright - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose General agreement exists in the literature that clinicians struggle with quantifying
discourse-level performance in clinical settings. Core lexicon analysis has gained recent …

Automation of the northwestern Narrative Language analysis system

D Fromm, B MacWhinney, CK Thompson - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose Analysis of spontaneous speech samples is important for determining patterns of
language production in people with aphasia. To accomplish this, researchers and clinicians …

Discourse measurement in aphasia: Consensus and caveats

A Dietz, M Boyle - Aphasiology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

A comparison of manual versus automated quantitative production analysis of connected speech

D Fromm, S Katta, M Paccione, S Hecht… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose Analysis of connected speech in the field of adult neurogenic communication
disorders is essential for research and clinical purposes, yet time and expertise are often …

Minimizing variability in language sampling analysis: A practical way to calculate text length and time variability and measure reliable change when assessing clients

E Spencer, L Bryant, K Colyvas - Topics in Language Disorders, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Variability is common in language sample analysis (LSA), arising from personal factors such
as age or level of education, or from factors within the text such as its length and purpose …

Core Lexicon analysis of spoken discourse production by Mandarin Chinese speakers with Aphasia

J Chen, H Chang - Aphasiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Spoken discourse production has been increasingly recognised as an
important source for assessing language competence of persons with aphasia (PWA). Most …

The relationship between narrative informativeness and psychosocial outcomes in chronic stroke-induced aphasia

E Armes, J Richardson, R Arenas, L Nelson - 2020 - digitalrepository.unm.edu
Currently there is a gap in the literature in understanding the relationship between the newly
categorized primary outcome measure of discourse and secondary outcomes related to …