Deficits in pragmatic language ability are common to a number of clinical populations, for
example, right-hemisphere damage (RHD), Autism and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In these …

Nonstandardized assessment procedures serve a variety of purposes, including determining
competencies in domains for which there are no standardized tests, describing performance …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

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 …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can seriously disrupt the social and communication skills that
are basic requirements for everyday life. It is the loss of these interpersonal skills that can be …

Soldiers with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) present with an array of neuropsychiatric
symptoms that can be grouped into nosological clusters:(1) cognitive dysfunctions …

A range of discourse analyses are effective in identifying features which are aberrant
following traumatic brain injury (TBI). We examined the exchanges of five traumatically brain …

Background: Functional communication requires proficiency in the adaptation of language to
varied contexts. Recent research has demonstrated that individuals with traumatic brain …

This review analyses several recent studies of discourse deficits subsequent to traumatic
brain injury. The review describes methodological problems related to incomplete subject …

This study examined the variation in narrative discourse production noted in an earlier report
of 11 closed-head-injury (CHI) patients and 21 normal speakers. Measures of productivity …