Background Discourse is fundamental to everyday communication, and is an increasing
focus of clinical assessment, intervention and research. Aphasia can affect the information a …

Purpose This study examined discourse characteristics of individuals with aphasia who
scored at or above the 93.8 cutoff on the Aphasia Quotient subtests of the Western Aphasia …

Purpose Recent evidence suggests that race/ethnicity is a variable that is critical to
outcomes in neurological disorders. The purpose of this article was to examine the …

Background: Pictorial stimuli are a traditional means of discourse elicitation for individuals
with aphasia. The discourse genre produced in response to pictures may be affected by the …

Background: There is a need for discourse research with African Americans who have
aphasia, highlighted by ethnic group differences in stroke prevalence, and potential ethnic …

Coherence is a key construct by which discourse is defined. Understanding coherence
represents a common goal of various discourse analyses (van Dijk, 1977). A discourse is …

Purpose This article furthers the conversation about how speech-language pathologists
(SLPs) can incorporate an understanding of language variation as they provide services to …

Purpose This study examined the effect of fundamental frequency (F0) variation on the
intelligibility of speech in an alaryngeal talker who used an electrolarynx (EL). Method One …

Purpose The narrative is an important component of cognitive–linguistic assessment of
nonmainstream populations and provides a valuable basis on which to conduct cross …

Background: There is a tradition of social validation studies in the adult clinical treatment
literature that has not yet been extended to narrative evaluation. This social validation …