Background: The nature and causes of pragmatic impairments following right hemisphere
damage (RHD) continue to pose a challenge to researchers and clinicians. It is widely …

Research and clinical efforts aimed at understanding and improving the communication
impairments associated with acquired right hemisphere damage (RHD) are hampered by …

It is well recognized that pragmatic deficits can interfere with daily communication in
individuals with right-hemisphere damage (RHD). Over and above the interest of these …

Background Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled
nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are …

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

Despite the well documented pragmatic deficits that can arise subsequent to Right
Hemisphere Brain Damage (RHBD), few researchers have directly studied everyday …

Formal and functional approaches to pragmatics are based upon different assumptions
about the nature of the language system. This paper examines these approaches to …

Aim of the present study is to provide a multifocal assessment of pragmatic abilities in
patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD). Pragmatics refers to the ability to use …

In this article, the current state of our knowledge of pragmatic disorders in adults with
language impairment is assessed. A brief historical background of clinical pragmatics is …

Background: It is estimated that approximately 50% of individuals who incur right‐
hemisphere damage (RHD) have subsequent communication disorders. Lexical‐semantic …