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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
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Alantie, Sonja; Tyrkkö, Jukka; Makkonen, Tanja; Renvall, Kati – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study reports on how very old (VO) Finnish people without dementia perform in the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) and two verbal fluency tasks and which demographic factors predict the performance. Method: The study included fifty 80- to 100-year-old community-dwelling Finnish speakers with no dementing illnesses or speech-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Finno Ugric Languages, Aphasia