Aims: The aim of this article is to identify which existing instrument of functional
communication from the aphasia literature best fits with a theoretically founded definition of …

Background Discourse is fundamental to everyday communication, and is an increasing
focus of clinical assessment, intervention and research. Aphasia can affect the information a …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

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: Improved discourse production is a priority for all key stakeholders in aphasia
rehabilitation. A Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for aphasia found …

Discourse (a unit of language longer than a single sentence) is fundamental to everyday
communication. People with aphasia (a language impairment occurring most frequently after …

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 …

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

Visual narratives, such as wordless picture books and picture sequences like comics, have a
long history in clinical testing, research, and intervention settings. The widespread “Visual …

Purpose The purposes of this study are to provide clinicians and researchers with
introductory psychometric data for the main concept analysis (MCA), a measure of discourse …