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

Individuals with schizophrenia display speech and language impairments that greatly impact
their integration to the society. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the …

Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production provides a comprehensive review
and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse …

Discourse (a unit of language longer than a single sentence) is fundamental to everyday
communication. People with aphasia (a language impairment occurring most frequently after …

Background: Persons with aphasia often report feeling anxious when using language while
communicating. While many patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers would agree …

Background: Discourse functionality is a primary goal of aphasia assessment and
intervention. People who have aphasia often display a paradoxical functionality in their …

Primary objective: To investigate the effects of a familiar communication partner on the
production of narrative after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Method: Ten participants with TBI …

Abstract Language deficits, including word-finding difficulties and impaired single-word
comprehension, have been found in patients with semantic variant primary progressive …

Purpose The aim of this study was to prove the efficacy of supervised self-training for
individuals with aphasia. Linguistic and communicative performance in structured dialogues …

Background: Reported speech has been examined extensively in linguistics and discourse
research; however, very few studies on reported speech in narratives of individuals with …