In the United States, the incidence rate of new or recurrent stroke is approximately 795 000
per year, and stroke prevalence for individuals over the age of 20 years is estimated at 6.5 …

Purpose To determine what research evidence exists to support the use of voice measures
in the clinical assessment of patients with voice disorders. Method The American Speech …

Methods: An expert panel met to select appropriate recommendations for assessment and
treatment of cognitive-communication disorders based on available literature. To promote …

Primary objective: Communication impairments associated with acquired brain injury (ABI)
are devastating in their impact on family, community, social, academic, and vocational …

Executive functions play a vital role in the everyday functioning of healthy individuals across
the lifespan and have been implicated in a wide variety of clinical conditions. Historically, the …

ADHD affects working memory (WM) and other executive functions (EFs) and thereby
negatively impacts school performance, clinical symptoms and functional impairment. The …

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

It is well established that brain injuries adversely affect the executive functions and their
development. Mark Ylvisaker had a substantial impact on how we assess and treat children …

Background: Story grammar is a super-structural measure of discourse performance that has
shown to be sensitive to the deficits seen following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Narrative …

Purpose: The primary aim of this paper was to identify and describe current social
communication assessment tools for adults with traumatic brain injury. Method: We …