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 …

As the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, the long-term health
problems caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection are becoming increasingly clear. So-called Long …

Purpose: Diagnosis of language impairments after stroke is important to optimizing stroke
outcomes. After right hemisphere brain damage (RHD), apragmatism can impact the …

Purpose To improve the utility of the cookie theft stimuli by reporting normative control data
on both original and modern cookie theft pictures for clinically feasible discourse analysis …

Purpose: This study was designed to examine the hypothesis that discourse task types
influence language performance in Mandarin Chinese–speaking people and to reveal the …

As of 2023, stroke continues to be one of leading causes of significant long-term disability in
the United States. 1 Cognitive deficits are a common component of post-stroke sequala …

Neurological disorders that affect speech production, such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD),
significantly impact the lives of both patients and caregivers, whether through social, psycho …

Communication changes following right hemisphere damage have long been identified as
occurring at the level of discourse. Impairments in discourse production have resulted in …

This chapter focuses on discourse measures that can be analyzed with either no or minimal
transcription. For each measure, key research evidence, including availability of materials …

Throughout the mid-to late 20th century, deficits associated with damage to the right
hemisphere were observed and reported. Visuoperceptual deficits and symptoms of …