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Rider, Jill Davis; Wright, Heather Harris; Marshall, Robert C.; Page, Judith L. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2008
Purpose: Semantic feature analysis (SFA) was used to determine whether training contextually related words would improve the discourse of individuals with nonfluent aphasia in preselected contexts. Method: A modified multiple-probes-across-behaviors design was used to train target words using SFA in 3 adults with nonfluent aphasia. Pretreatment,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Aphasia, Vocabulary, Adults
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Wright, Heather Harris; Newhoff, Marilyn – Brain and Language, 2004
Processing abilities in aphasia, and the nature of processing breakdowns, were the focuses of this investigation. Individuals with either fluent or nonfluent aphasia, plus a control group, participated in a cross-modal lexical priming task designed to elicit priming effects when activation of inference interpretations occurred. Comprehension of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Control Groups, Aphasia, Language Processing