Over the past few decades, ideas and practice in clinical aphasiology have been influenced
by many approaches that have begun to move aphasia treatment from the therapy room into …

Using language appropriately and effectively in social contexts requires pragmatic language
competencies (PLCs). Increasingly, deficits in PLCs are linked to child and adolescent …

This is a book for all neuropsychologists who are called upon to assess culturally different
clients--with very few exceptions today, this means every neuropsychologist. In Minneapolis …

The idea that aphasia masks competence normally revealed through conversation forms the
basis for a conceptual model thatextends the traditional definition and scope of practice in …

Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the
assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore …

Conversation partners of individuals with aphasia, including health care professionals,
families, and others, play a role that is as important for communication as the language …

This paper describes the rationale and the data base upon which pragmatic approaches to
the treatment of aphasia are based. It illustrates pragmatic treatment by describing three …

This paper proposes a collaborative model of repair in aphasic discourse, derived from the
procedures of conversation analysis (CA). First, it is suggested that relative to other …

The spoken language of individuals with mild aphasia and age-matched control subjects
was studied under conditions of isolation, focused attention, and divided attention. A picture …

Pragmatic competence comprises a number of interrelated skills which manifest in real-time
in a range of adaptive behaviors and which are driven by underlying cognitive processes …