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Training Flexibility in Fixed Expressions in Non-Fluent Aphasia: A Case Series Report
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Bruns, Claudia; Beeke, Suzanne; Zimmerer, Vitor C.; Bruce, Carolyn; Varley, Rosemary A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Many speakers with non-fluent aphasia (NFA) are able to produce some well-formed word combinations such as 'I like it' or 'I don't know', although they may not use variations such as 'He likes it' or 'I don't know that person'. This suggests that these utterances represent fixed forms. Aims: This case series investigation explored the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Language Impairments, Intervention, Speech Instruction
People with Aphasia and Their Family Members Proposing Joint Future Activities in Everyday Conversations: A Conversation Analytic Study
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Tuomenoksa, Asta; Beeke, Suzanne; Klippi, Anu – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: In everyday conversations, a person with aphasia (PWA) compensates for their language impairment by relying on multimodal and material resources, as well as on their conversation partners. However, some social actions people perform in authentic interaction, proposing a joint future activity, for example, ordinarily rely on a speaker…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Discourse Analysis, Language Impairments, Comparative Analysis
Measuring Communication as a Core Outcome in Aphasia Trials: Results of the ROMA-2 International Core Outcome Set Development Meeting
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Wallace, Sarah J.; Worrall, Linda; Rose, Tanya A.; Alyahya, Reem S. W.; Babbitt, Edna; Beeke, Suzanne; de Beer, Carola; Bose, Arpita; Bowen, Audrey; Brady, Marian C.; Breitenstein, Caterina; Bruehl, Stefanie; Bryant, Lucy; Cheng, Bonnie B. Y.; Cherney, Leora R.; Conroy, Paul; Copland, David A.; Croteau, Claire; Cruice, Madeline; Dipper, Lucy; Hilari, Katerina; Howe, Tami; Kelly, Helen; Kiran, Swathi; Laska, Ann-Charlotte; Marshall, Jane; Murray, Laura L.; Patterson, Janet; Pearl, Gill; Quinting, Jana; Rochon, Elizabeth; Rose, Miranda L.; Rubi-Fessen, Ilona; Sage, Karen; Simmons-Mackie, Nina; Visch-Brink, Evy; Volkmer, Anna; Webster, Janet; Whitworth, Anne; Le Dorze, Guylaine – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Evidence-based recommendations for a core outcome set (COS; minimum set of outcomes) for aphasia treatment research have been developed (the Research Outcome Measurement in Aphasia--ROMA, COS). Five recommended core outcome constructs: communication, language, quality of life, emotional well-being and patient-reported…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Aphasia, Foreign Countries
Identifying Mechanisms of Change in a Conversation Therapy for Aphasia Using Behaviour Change Theory and Qualitative Methods
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Johnson, Fiona M.; Best, Wendy; Beckley, Firle Christina; Maxim, Jane; Beeke, Suzanne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Conversation therapy for aphasia is a complex intervention comprising multiple components and targeting multiple outcomes. UK Medical Research Council (MRC) guidelines published in 2008 recommend that in addition to measuring the outcomes of complex interventions, evaluation should seek to clarify how such outcomes are produced,…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Speech Therapy, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories
Speech and Language Therapy for Primary Progressive Aphasia across the UK: A Survey of Current Practice
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Volkmer, Anna; Spector, Aimee; Warren, Jason D.; Beeke, Suzanne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) describes a heterogeneous group of language-led dementias. People with this type of dementia are increasingly being referred to speech and language therapy (SLT) services. Yet, there is a paucity of research evidence focusing on PPA interventions and little is known about SLT practice in terms of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Speech Therapy, Dementia, Intervention
Delivering Communication Strategy Training for People with Aphasia: What Is Current Clinical Practice?
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Beckley, Firle; Best, Wendy; Beeke, Suzanne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Communication strategy training (CST) is a recognized part of UK speech and language therapists' (SLTs) role when working with a person with aphasia. Multiple CST interventions have been published but, to date, there are no published studies exploring clinical practice in this area. Aims: To investigate UK SLTs' current CST practices.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aphasia, Speech Therapy, Communication Strategies
Conversation Therapy for Agrammatism: Exploring the Therapeutic Process of Engagement and Learning by a Person with Aphasia
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Beckley, Firle; Best, Wendy; Johnson, Fiona; Edwards, Susan; Maxim, Jane; Beeke, Suzanne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background & Aims: A recent systematic review of conversation training for communication partners of people with aphasia has shown that it is effective, and improves participation in conversation for people with chronic aphasia. Other research suggests that people with aphasia are better able to learn communication strategies in an environment…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Aphasia, Grammar, Older Adults
Prosody as a Compensatory Strategy in the Conversations of People with Agrammatism
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Beeke, Suzanne; Wilkinson, Ray; Maxim, Jane – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Historically, agrammatism, a symptom of Broca's aphasia, has been associated with dysprosody, on account of speakers' slow, halting, and effortful speech. Almost all investigations of this phenomenon use experimental methods (reading, repetition). Thus, little is known about how prosody is used by speakers with agrammatism and understood by their…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Investigations, Suprasegmentals, Grammar
Co-Constructed Talk in the Conversations of People with Dysarthria and Aphasia
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Bloch, Steven; Beeke, Suzanne – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
This paper uses the methodology of conversation analysis (CA) to examine the practice of co-constructed turn and utterance production in impaired communication. An investigation of the conversations between two family dyads, featuring one person with dysarthric speech and one with aphasic language, reveals one way in which single turns and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Impairments, Aphasia, Interaction
Rethinking Agrammatism: Factors Affecting the Form of Language Elicited via Clinical Test Procedures
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Beeke, Suzanne; Maxim, Jane; Wilkinson, Ray – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Current approaches to assessing agrammatism use data from restricted contexts, such as picture description and story telling tasks. There is evidence in the conversation analysis literature to suggest that conversational grammar may differ markedly from the grammar of such elicited language samples. The disparity between conversational and test…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Aphasia, Context Effect, Language Tests
Individual Variation in Agrammatism: A Single Case Study of the Influence of Interaction
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Beeke, Suzanne; Wilkinson, Ray; Maxim, Jane – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Agrammatic speech can manifest in different ways in the same speaker if task demands change. Individual variation is considered to reflect adaptation, driven by psycholinguistic factors such as underlying deficit. Recently, qualitative investigations have begun to show ways in which conversational interaction can influence the form of…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Sentences, Story Telling, Speech Communication