Measurement of communication ability at the discourse level holds promise for predicting
how well persons with stable (eg, stroke-induced), or progressive aphasia navigate …

Core Lexicon (CoreLex) is a relatively new approach assessing lexical use in discourse.
CoreLex examines the specific lexical items used to tell a story, or how typical lexical items …

Purpose This study examined discourse characteristics of individuals with aphasia who
scored at or above the 93.8 cutoff on the Aphasia Quotient subtests of the Western Aphasia …

Purpose In comparison to the large literature on moderate to severe aphasia, very little is
known about aphasia of the mildest severity and whether intervention may be warranted …

Background Large-shared databases and automated language analyses allow for the
application of new data analysis techniques that can shed new light on the connected …

Recently, a multilevel analytic approach called Main Concept, Sequencing, and Story
Grammar (MSSG) was presented along with preliminary normative information. MSSG …

Background Discourse analysis procedures are time consuming and impractical in a clinical
setting. Critical to clinicians are simple and informative discourse measures that require …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the language
characteristics of people with latent aphasia using measures that examined temporal (ie …

This chapter examines state-of-the-art methods for coding, analyzing, and interpreting
discourse-level language data from children and adults with language disorders using the …

Purpose The purposes of this study are to provide clinicians and researchers with
introductory psychometric data for the main concept analysis (MCA), a measure of discourse …