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Kim, Hana; Schoemann, Alexander M.; Wright, Heather Harris – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Core lexicon measures have received growing attention in research. They are intended to provide clinicians with a clinician-friendly means to quantify word retrieval ability in discourse based on normal expectations of discourse production for specific discourse elicitation tasks. To date, different criteria have been used to develop core…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Measurement, Accuracy
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Kim, Hana; Kintz, Stephen; Wright, Heather Harris – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Although discourse-level assessments contribute to predicting real-world performance in persons with aphasia (PWA), the use of discourse measures is uncommon in clinical settings due to resource-heavy procedures. Moreover, assessing function word use in discourse requires the arduous procedure of defining grammatical categories for…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Discourse Analysis, Word Lists, Form Classes (Languages)
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Sharma, Saryu; Kim, Hana; Harris, Havan; Haberstroh, Amanda; Wright, Heather Harris; Rothermich, Kathrin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Aim: The aim of this scoping review is to identify the eye tracking paradigms and eye movement measures used to investigate auditory and reading comprehension deficits in persons with aphasia (PWA). Method: MEDLINE via PubMed, Cochrane, CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, OTseeker, Scopus, Google Scholar, Grey Literature Database, and ProQuest Search…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Verbal Communication
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Sharma, Saryu; Briley, Patrick M.; Wright, Heather Harris; Perry, Jamie L.; Fang, Xiangming; Ellis, Charles – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Aphasia is a language impairment which results as a consequence of stroke. Gender differences are reported in underlying mechanisms of stroke, however, gender differences in aphasia type and severity remain unclear. Aims: To examine gender differences in aphasia…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Aphasia, Language Impairments, Gender Differences
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Kim, Hana; Kintz, Stephen; Zelnosky, Kristen; Wright, Heather Harris – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Discourse analysis procedures are time consuming and impractical in a clinical setting. Critical to clinicians are simple and informative discourse measures that require minimal time and labour to complete. Many studies, however, have overlooked difficulties that clinicians face. We recently developed core lexicon lists for nouns,…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Discourse Analysis, Control Groups, Nouns
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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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Marshall, Robert C.; Wright, Heather Harris – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: The Kentucky Aphasia Test (KAT) is an objective measure of language functioning for persons with aphasia. This article describes materials, administration, and scoring of the KAT; presents the rationale for development of test items; reports information from a pilot study; and discusses the role of the KAT in aphasia assessment. Method:…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Test Format, Language Tests, Expressive Language
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Wright, Heather Harris; Shisler, Rebecca J. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2005
Recently, researchers have suggested that deficits in working memory capacity contribute to language-processing difficulties observed in individuals with aphasia (e.g., I. Caspari, S. Parkinson, L. LaPointe, & R. Katz, 1998; R. A. Downey et al., 2004; N. Friedmann & A. Gvion, 2003; H. H. Wright, M. Newhoff, R. Downey, & S. Austermann, 2003). A…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Investigations, Aphasia, Short Term Memory
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Capilouto, Gilson; Wright, Heather Harris; Wagovich, Stacy A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2005
Correct information unit (CIU) and main event analyses are quantitative measures for analyzing discourse of individuals with aphasia. Comparative data from healthy younger (YG) and older (OD) adults and an investigation of the influence of stimuli type would considerably extend the usefulness of such analyses. The objectives were (a) to compare…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Aphasia, Older Adults, Young 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