Dutch Diagnostic Instrument for Mild Aphasia (DIMA): standardisation and a first clinical application in two brain tumour patients

D Satoer, E De Witte, B Bulté… - Clinical Linguistics & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Brain tumour patients with mild language disturbances are typically underdiagnosed due to
lack of sensitive tests leading to negative effects in daily communicative and social life. We …

Written discourse in diagnosis for acquired neurogenic communication disorders: current evidence and future directions

H Kim, J Obermeyer, RW Wiley - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Purpose We aimed to perform the first review of research focusing on written discourse
performance in people with acquired neurogenic communication disorders. In studies from …

Handwritten and typed discourse in people with aphasia: Reference data for sequential picture description and comparison of performance across modality

J Obermeyer, L Edmonds, J Morgan - American Journal of Speech …, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: Writing can be completed by hand or by typing. Increasingly, functional and social
activities are completed in the virtual domain, which often requires discourse level writing …

Toward empowering conversational agency in aphasia: Understanding mechanisms of topic initiation in people with and without aphasia

MC Leaman, B Archer, LA Edmonds - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2022 - ASHA
Method: Twenty PWA and 20 M-PWoA each participated in two conversations with SLP-Ps.
Conversation samples were analyzed for TI locations and mechanisms, with results tallied …

Minimizing variability in language sampling analysis: A practical way to calculate text length and time variability and measure reliable change when assessing clients

E Spencer, L Bryant, K Colyvas - Topics in Language Disorders, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Variability is common in language sample analysis (LSA), arising from personal factors such
as age or level of education, or from factors within the text such as its length and purpose …

Attentive reading with constrained summarization-written, a multi-modality discourse-level treatment for mild aphasia

JA Obermeyer, Y Rogalski, LA Edmonds - Aphasiology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background: Attentive Reading with Constrained Summarization-Written (ARCS-
W) is a treatment in development that was adapted to improve written and spoken discourse …

Digital assessment of acquired alexia and agraphia: on the relevance of written discourse

P Jaecks, K Jonas - Frontiers in Communication, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The digital revolution has created challenges as well as opportunities for people with
acquired reading (= alexia) and writing (= agraphia) impairments. Although it is difficult to …

Typing Versus Handwriting: A Preliminary Investigation of Modality Effects in the Writing Output of People With Aphasia

JB Lee, LE Kinsey, LR Cherney - American journal of speech …, 2024 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose: Handwriting and typing have different cognitive and motor demands; however,
questions remain as to whether performance in people with aphasia varies based on …

Dialectally-sensitive norms of the Spanish version of main concept analysis (Span-MCA) for quantifying neurogenically impaired spoken discourse

APH Kong - Revista de Investigación en Logopedia, 2021 - hub.hku.hk
Aphasia is an acquired language impairment caused by damage in the regions of the brain
that support language. The Main Concept Analysis (MCA; Kong, 2016b) is a published …

Evaluating change in the conversation of a person with mild aphasia after attentive reading with constrained summarization-written treatment

JA Obermeyer, MC Leaman, LA Edmonds - American Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effect of a discourse-level treatment,
Attentive Reading with Constrained Summarization–Written (ARCS-W), on conversational …