One of the most uniquely human activities engaged in from early childhood through to death
across cultures, is conversation. Our ability to engage in conversation depends on our …

As part of a 5-year study of the longitudinal effects of Alzheimer disease (AD) on language,
discourse samples from three patients diagnosed with AD and three matched normal …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of asking open-ended
episodic memory questions versus open-ended semantic memory questions on the …

Little is known about communication in end-stage Alzheimer's disease. Obler and Albert
(1984) reported that individuals lose the press of speech that is characteristic of earlier …

Approaches to discourse impairments following brain damage Dementia and its discourse:
An approach to intervention | Article Information | J-GLOBAL Art J-GLOBAL ID:200902235697633129 …

Qualitative research, particularly discourse analysis, is now widely accepted as a method of
analysis in the field of communication disorders. It has yielded a wealth of information that …

A careful study of language changes in Alzheimer's can be useful in at least three areas:(1)
in identification and differential diagnosis,(2) in formulating intervention strategies and (3) in …

Assessments of the narrative abilities of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease should
consider the interactions that generate the narratives. By analyzing the discourse of an AD …

Conversation has always been considered an art. Increasingly, however, it is a science too.
The last two decades of this century have seen a marked increase in the number of studies …

Bayles and Tomoeda's book represents a long overdue textbook for speech-language
pathologists addressing communication issues in dementia. With its comprehensive content …