Background The complexity of communication presents challenges for clinical assessment,
outcome measurement and intervention for people with acquired brain injury. For the …

Purpose We aimed to perform the first review of research focusing on written discourse
performance in people with acquired neurogenic communication disorders. In studies from …

Purpose: Verb tense production is known to be impaired in people with nonfluent aphasia.
Selective past tense impairment in this population has been reported, but results are …

Purpose: Narration within a story grammar framework requires speakers to organize
characters and events logically. Despite abundant research characterizing narrative deficits …

ABSTRACT Background Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) provide a
variety of therapies for cohorts of individuals with aphasia. Converging evidence for proof of …

Background Stroke survivors with aphasia want to improve their everyday talking
(discourse). In current UK practice, 90% of speech and language therapists believe …

Background People with aphasia (PWA) typically exhibit deficits in spoken discourse.
Discourse analysis is the gold standard approach to assess language deficits beyond …

Successful spoken discourse requires a speaker to be informative to deliver a coherent,
meaningful message. The informativeness of discourse can be conveyed by the variety of …

Purpose: Generalization has been defined and instantiated in a variety of ways over the last
half-century, and this lack of consistency has created challenges for speech-language …

Objective: Limited normative data (including psychometric properties) are currently available
on discourse tasks in non-dominant languages such as Laurentian (Quebec) French. The …