Background Although spoken discourse is an outcome prioritised by all stakeholders in
aphasia rehabilitation, assessment and treatment of discourse are not routine clinical …

Background: Studies of aphasic sentence production have identified a number of promising
approaches to improving performance at the single sentence level, but these studies have …

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 …

Purpose: People with aphasia and their families want rehabilitation services that improve
real-world communication. Thus, clinicians and researchers have increased focus on …

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 …

Background: Therapy for people with aphasia (PWA) can encompass a wide range of aims
and methodologies from targeting the linguistic impairment to strategic compensation to …

Background: There is growing consensus that aphasia treatment should support everyday
real-life communication. Intervention that targets narrative discourse may offer the essential …

Background Persons with aphasia (PWA) experience a number of communicative and social‐
emotional challenges. Reported experiences of PWA include but are not limited to, being …

Background Discourse assessment and treatment in aphasia rehabilitation is a priority focus
for a range of stakeholder groups. However, a significant majority of speech and language …

Background: The involvement of service users and supporters/advocates in healthcare
education and healthcare research has developed an increasingly high profile in recent …