This study quantifies connected speech samples of post-acute adults with mild, moderate
and severe levels of aphasia. Yorkston and Beukelman (1980) established utterance …

The purpose of this study was to develop a technique for quantifying connected speech
samples of aphasic individuals as they recover from the moderate to the mild range of …

A rule-based system was used to score performance deviations in the connected speech of
40 adults with no brain damage, 10 adults with fluent aphasia, and 10 adults with nonfluent …

At present, speech samples have been obtained from 33 aphasic individuals whose verbal
scores on the Porch_Index_of_Communicative Ability (PICA)(Porch, 1967), ranged from the …

METHOD Speech samples were obtained from 20 non-brain-damaged adults, 5 adults with
nonfluent (essentially Broca's) aphasia, and 10 adults with fluent-mixed aphasia (fluent …

A few months ago we received two referrals of patients who were complaining of verbal
disturbance, but from all outward appearances had no language disorders. Based on a …

Background: Spontaneous speech of aphasic persons is often scored on rating scales
assessing aphasic symptoms. Rating scales have the advantage of an easy and fast scoring …

A standardized rule-based scoring system, the Correct Information Unit (CIU) analysis, was
used to evaluate the informativeness and efficiency of the connected speech of 20 non-brain …

Fifty aphasic speakers were classified into six groups, defined by differences in
characteristics of their spontaneous speech. A multiple discriminant analysis was performed …

Interest in the analysis of spontaneous speech as a method of diagnosis and classification of
individuals with aphasia is far from new (Benson, 1967, Goodglass and Kaplan, 1972 …