The verbal, non-verbal and structural bases of functional communication abilities in aphasia.

ABSTRACT: The ability to communicate, functionally, after stroke or other types of acquired brain injury is crucial for the person involved and the people around them. Accordingly, assessment of functional communication is increasingly used in large-scale randomized controlled trials as the primary outcome measure. Despite the importance of functional communication abilities to everyday life and their centrality to the measured efficacy of aphasia interventions, there is little knowledge about how commonly used measures of functional communication relate to each other, whether they capture and grade the full range of patients' remaining communication skills and how these abilities relate to the patients' verbal and non-verbal impairments as well as the underpinning lesions. Going beyond language-onl

SUBMITTER: Schumacher R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7660039 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature