Background: Participation in a group environment is an inherently complex undertaking for people with aphasia. It involves engaging in multi-person interactions with other people who may have a range of communication strengths and strategies at their disposal. The potential challenges of community aphasia-group participation and practice has had…

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that anomia as defined by the Srole scale (a measurement of despair, hopelessness, and retreatism) is inversely related to socio-economic status (as measured by occupation, income, and education) and the amount of informal and formal group participation. Data were collected via random sample…

Based on the completed interview schedules of 74 black and 34 white rural household heads (from an East Mississippi county) making less than $3,000 annually, the purpose of this study was to examine whether social participation of the impoverished may be correlated with the geographic mobility potential of household heads and their adult children.…

The influence of participation in adult basic education on attitudinal changes among a selected group of adults from rural Appalachia was studied. Specific aims of the study were: (1) to determine the relationship between participation in ABE and change in anomia, (2) to determine the extent of anomia among rural Appalachian adults with…

RESEARCH GENERATED BY THE EXPERIMENTAL EDITION OF THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES IS REVIEWED. TWENTY-FIVE STATISTICAL, REMEDIAL, AND LANGUAGE DISORDER STUDIES ARE SUMMARIZED ACCORDING TO PURPOSE, SUBJECTS, PROCEDURE, RESULTS, AND COMMENTS. SEVEN ADDITIONAL STUDIES ARE INCLUDED IN AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. FIFTY-FOUR OTHER…