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Enhancing Aphasia Evaluation with Basic Discourse Measures

Explore the significance of using discourse measures to describe various aspects of aphasia, including 'empty speech,' phonemic paraphasias, jargon, and agrammatism. Learn about assessing language levels and quantitative methods for improved prognosis and treatment response.

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Enhancing Aphasia Evaluation with Basic Discourse Measures

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  1. Using discourse measures to describe aphasia Alison Ferguson

  2. Fluent ‘Empty speech’ Press of speech Phonemic paraphasias Neologisms Jargon Paragrammatism Non-Fluent Content > function words Effortful ‘telegraphic’ Agrammatism Describing aphasic output Information proportional to fluency

  3. Why ‘measure’? • Prognosis • Recovery • Response to treatment Social Participation Impairment Activity

  4. Assessment Methods Decontextualised CONTEXT Context manipulated

  5. Assessment Methods Elicited SAMPLE Natural

  6. Assessment Methods word, phrase, clause LEVEL OF LANGUAGE discourse

  7. Assessment Methods quantitative DESCRIPTION qualitative

  8. Basic discourse measures

  9. Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts – V.8 (Miller, 2004)

  10. Automatised analyses

  11. Example of Automatised Analysis

  12. Preliminary outcomes

  13. Fluent vs Non-FluentGrammatical Intricacy

  14. Fluent vs Non-fluentEfficiency ( Complete & Intelligible Utterances per min)

  15. Concurrent validity – TTR & communicative effectiveness

  16. Basic discourse measures

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