This chapter discusses our current knowledge about the disorders associated with right
hemisphere brain damage (RHD), and our best existing assessment and treatment methods …

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 …

The Right Hemisphere and Disorders of Cognition and Communication: Theory and Clinical
Practice provides a comprehensive review of right hemisphere cognitive and communication …

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

Abstract seeks to correct an imbalance in the traditional view of language deficits associated
with brain damage/describes how communication ability requires the contribution of the right …

Background: Specific information about prevalence and patterns of deficits associated with
right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) is incomplete. A recent large-scale study of inpatients …

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

Right hemisphere dysfunction (RHD) arises from lesions to the right hemisphere. For people
with a dominant left hemisphere, the form and content of language appear normal until deep …

Only within the last 10 years have the importance and contribution of the right hemisphere to
the integrity of a patient's functioning become the subject of increased clinical research …

It is no coincidence that communicative disorders associated with unilateral damage to the
right cerebral hemisphere were typically untreated by speech-language pathologists before …