The narrative skills of nonaphasic individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) were
compared with those of a group of healthy participants. All participants scored within the …

Purpose: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) commonly causes pragmatic language
disorders that are apparent in discourse production. Specific characteristics and approaches …

A predominant theory regarding early stroke and its effect on language development, is that
early left hemisphere lesions trigger compensatory processes that allow the right …

Purpose Discourse characteristics of adults with right hemisphere brain damage are similar
to those reported for healthy older adults, prompting the question of whether changes are …

Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) has been linked to a diverse range of
discourse-level communicative deficits generally based on subjective impressions …

Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension
difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic …

Despite considerable interest in the linguistic dimensions of right-hemisphere (RH)
pragmatic language disorders, the cognitive bases for these are rarely examined. This study …

Purpose To describe the current treatment research for communication (prosodic, discourse,
and pragmatic) deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage and to provide …

This research provides further data regarding non‐literal language comprehension following
right hemisphere damage (RHD). To assess the impact of RHD on the processing of non …

This study examines the effect of emotional content on the verbal pragmatic aspects of
discourse production in right-brain-damaged (RBD), left-brain-damaged (LBD), and normal …