Training communication partners of people with traumatic brain injury: A randomised controlled trial

L Togher, S McDonald, C Code, S Grant - Aphasiology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are difficult to modify
due to the cognitive limitation imposed by frontal lobe damage. As an alternative approach …

An exploration of participant experience of a communication training program for people with traumatic brain injury and their communication partners

L Togher, E Power, R Rietdijk… - Disability and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To investigate the experiences of participants who attended communication
training programs for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their everyday …

Evaluating communication training for paid carers of people with traumatic brain injury

N Behn, L Togher, E Power, R Heard - Brain injury, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Primary objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a communication training programme for
paid carers to improve their conversational interactions with people with TBI. Research …

Giving information: The importance of context on communicative opportunity for people with traumatic brain injury

L Togher - Aphasiology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
This study is one of a series investigating everyday communication skills of people with
traumatic brain injury (TBI) using communication partners other than speech pathologists or …

Measuring the social interactions of people with traumatic brain injury and their communication partners: The adapted Kagan scales

L Togher, E Power, R Tate, S McDonald, R Rietdijk - Aphasiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Considerable attention has been given to the nature of communication
impairments of individuals with TBI (Coelho,; Ylvisaker, Turkstra, & Coelho,). However, there …

The effectiveness of social communication partner training for adults with severe chronic TBI and their families using a measure of perceived communication ability

L Togher, S McDonald, R Tate, R Rietdijk… - …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Training for communication partners of people with traumatic brain injury
(TBI) is efficacious when using blinded independent ratings of casual conversations …

Casual conversations between individuals with traumatic brain injury and their friends

E Bogart, L Togher, E Power, K Docking - Brain Injury, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Primary objective: To investigate casual conversations with friends following severe
traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods: Nine participants with severe TBI were matched by …

Editorial Putting communication disorders in context after traumatic brain injury

S McDonald - Aphasiology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
In this editorial, the importance of context in communication after traumatic brain injury (TBI)
is discussed. Context is defined in a number of ways including the socio-cultural background …

Exploring the factor structure of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire: Insights into the nature of communication deficits following traumatic brain injury

JM Douglas, CA Bracy, PC Snow - Aphasiology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Self and close other reports of communication ability can provide a time‐
efficient means of evaluating conversational discourse after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The …

Analysing discourse in the traumatic brain injury population: Telephone interactions with different communication partners

L Togher, L Hand, C Code - Brain injury, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
A range of discourse analyses are effective in identifying features which are aberrant
following traumatic brain injury (TBI). We examined the exchanges of five traumatically brain …