Background: Discourse abilities play an important role in the assessment, classification, and
therapy outcome evaluation of people with aphasia. Discourse production in aphasia has …

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

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

Background: Several studies have shown that traditional standardised aphasia tests may not
be sensitive enough to adequately assess linguistic deficits and recovery patterns in …

Purpose Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate
language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify …

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 …

The purpose of the present research was to examine the influence of cognitive processes on
discourse global coherence ability measured across different discourse tasks and collected …

Background: Recent studies of microlinguistic impairments in the narrative discourse of
adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have applied syntactic analyses, with some noting no …

Primary objective: The purpose of this study was to characterize performance of individuals
with traumatic brain injury (TBI) on a novel video-based test, the Video Social Inference Test …

Background Global coherence is a metric of expressive language performance that
represents the speaker's ability to initiate, plan and maintain a topic of discussion. Studies …