Background Aphasia is an acquired language impairment following brain damage that
affects some or all language modalities: expression and understanding of speech, reading …

This review examined previous research applications of linguistic discourse analysis to
assess the language of adults with aphasia. A comprehensive literature search of seven …

Background Effectiveness of early intensive aphasia rehabilitation after stroke is unknown.
The Very Early Rehabilitation for SpEech trial (VERSE) aimed to determine whether …

This paper provides a critical review of the literature currently available relating to aphasic
discourse. It outlines the major approaches which have been taken to analysis …

Purpose Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate
language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify …

Background While meta-analyses confirm treatment for chronic post-stroke aphasia is
effective, a lack of comparative evidence for different interventions limits prescription …

Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the
assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore …

Background Discourse is fundamental to everyday communication, and is an increasing
focus of clinical assessment, intervention and research. Aphasia can affect the information a …

Background: Linguistic discourse analysis is an assessment method widely applied within
aphasia research literature to examine impairments as they affect the language of daily …

Purpose The heterogeneous nature of measures, methods, and analyses reported in the
aphasia spoken discourse literature precludes comparison of outcomes across studies (eg …