Gains made by a woman with Broca's aphasia as documented by traditional measures were paralleled by changes in conversation, including increased verbal output and efficiency, and changes in conversation-repair patterns. The progress documented with conversational discourse analysis was not observable from other test measures. (Author/DB)

The Correct Information Unity analysis for measuring the communicative information and efficiency of connected speech was applied to the naturally occurring conversation of a person with moderate aphasia. Results indicated low intrarater and interrater reliability although reliability of word counts was good. Most rater disagreements resulted from…