While left hemisphere damage (LHD) has been clearly shown to cause a range of language
impairments, patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) also exhibit communication …

Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) rarely causes aphasias marked by clear and
widespread failures of comprehension or extreme difficulty producing fluent speech …

Right hemisphere damage impairs lexical processing, prosodic processing, and discourse
and pragmatics. Clinicians and researchers have observed that conversation is a …

Previous research has established that patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) are
impaired in the comprehension of emotional prosody and facial expression. There are …

Discourse includes the production and comprehension of language in contexts that extend
beyond the literal meaning of individual words or sentences. Familiar examples include the …

Individuals with right hemisphere damage (RHD) can comprehend simple scripts but have
difficulties understanding more complex forms of discourse such as stories and jokes. This …

Damage to the right cerebral hemisphere (RHD) may cause a variety of disorders involving
communication, attention, and executive functions. Disorders commonly associated with …

Background: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can cause challenges with information
gathering. Cognitive processes aid in implicit and explicit information gathering, yet the …

Damage to the right side of the brain can cause deficits in a variety of areas, including
attention, cognition, and communication. The communication deficits often affect the …

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