Determinants of Multilevel Discourse Outcomes in Anomia Treatment for Aphasia.

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Purpose

Individuals with aphasia identify discourse-level communication (i.e., language in use) as a high priority for treatment. The central premise of most aphasia treatments is that restoring language at the phoneme, word, and/or sentence level will generalize to discourse. However, treatment-related changes in discourse-level communication are modest, are poorly understood, and vary greatly among individuals with aphasia. In response, this study consisted of a multilevel discourse analysis of archival, monologic discourse outcomes across two high-intensity Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) clinical trials. Aim 1 evaluated changes in theoretically motivated discourse outcomes representing lexical-semantic processing, lexical diversity, grammatical complexity, and discourse informa

SUBMITTER: Cavanaugh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11427423 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature