An efficient, accurate and clinically-applicable index of content word fluency in Aphasia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the clinical importance of assessing the efficiency and accuracy of fluency in terms of content words production during connected speech, assessments based on discourse tasks are very time-consuming and thus not clinically feasible.

Aims

(1) Examine the relationship between single-word naming and word retrieval during discourse production. (2) Investigate the relationship between word retrieval and content word fluency derived from a simple versus naturalistic discourse tasks. (3) Develop and validate an efficient and accurate index of content word fluency that is clinically viable.

Methods

Two discourse tasks (simple picture description and naturalistic storytelling narrative) were collected from 46 participants with post-stroke aphasia, and 20 age

SUBMITTER: Alyahya RSW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7613208 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature