Background: Evaluation of discourse is recognised as an important component in the
diagnosis and management of adult acquired communication disorders. Picture description …

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

Background: Proposition analysis of the discourse of persons with aphasia (PWAs) has a
long history, yielding important advancements in our understanding of communication …

Background: Semi-spontaneous speech production tasks are commonly elicited to assess
discourse ability. When knowledge of a topic, story, or event is shared, it is possible to gauge …

Introduction: The neuropsychological profile of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
and Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia includes a history of decline in memory and other …

Purpose We sought to identify the core lexicon of a picture-description task using transcripts
from the AphasiaBank database and to determine differences in core-lexicon usage …

Spoken discourse is regarded as an important component of communication assessment,
but data on the discourse characteristics of the adult population, and in particular those who …

Background Aphasia is characterized by difficulties in connected speech/writing. Aims To
explore the differences between the oral and written description of a picture in individuals …

Background: Discourse coherence is derived, in part, from the relationship between and
among words and sentences. In studies of aphasia, the relationship between discourse …

The language changes that occur over the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can impact
communication abilities and have profound functional consequences. Picture description …