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

Speech-language pathologists routinely use picture description tasks to assess expository
discourse in clients with disorders such as aphasia and dementia. One picture description …

Purpose Our goal was to evaluate an updated version of the “Cookie Theft” picture by
obtaining norms based on picture descriptions by healthy controls for total content units …

Purpose: Adults with right hemisphere damage demonstrate differences in connected
speech compared to controls, but systematic, quantitative methods to capture these …

BACKGROUND: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale is a widely accepted tool for
structured graded neurological examination of stroke or suspected stroke in the hyperacute …

The language network, comprised of brain regions in the left frontal and temporal cortex,
responds robustly and reliably during language comprehension but shows little or no …

Purpose Limited evidence exists to guide the assessment and treatment of cognitive-
communication disorders associated with right hemisphere stroke. The purpose of this study …

Clinical outcome prediction after a cerebrovascular event is important information for a
health-care provider so that he/she can convey that information to the patient, family, close …

Global outcome measures that are widely used in stroke clinical trials, such as the modified
Rankin Scale (mRS), lack sufficient detail to detect changes within specific domains (eg …

This paper presents the Cognitive and Social WELL-being (CoSoWELL) project that consists
of two components. One is a large corpus of narratives written by over 1000 North American …