Purpose: Motivation is a complex phenomenon that can influence a person's ability to make
progress in treatment. We sought to understand how motivation is currently measured and …

Purpose: Small-N studies are the dominant study design supporting evidence-based
interventions in communication science and disorders, including treatments for aphasia and …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize test–retest reliability of discourse
measures across a battery of common tasks in individuals with aphasia and prospectively …

Purpose: This study tested the effectiveness of a modified semantic feature analysis (SFA)
treatment protocol that incorporated metacognitive strategy training (MST). Regarding its …

Purpose: This study investigated the communicative benefits of self-repair during
conversation for persons with aphasia (PWAs). Self-repair of trouble sources is an …

There is a growing body of literature demonstrating that language rehabilitation can improve
naming impairments for individuals with aphasia. However, there are challenges applying …

Introduction There is a pressing need to improve computer-based treatments for aphasia to
increase access to long-term effective evidence-based interventions. The current single …

Purpose: Specifying the active ingredients in aphasia interventions can inform treatment
theory and improve clinical implementation. This secondary analysis examined three …

Purpose: Aphasia rehabilitation is a learning process that unfolds over time. Previous work
has examined aphasia treatment response using pre-to post-treatment comparison, largely …

Purpose: Although the importance of motivation to successful rehabilitation is frequently
acknowledged in the aphasia literature, little evidence-based guidance has been provided …