Journal ArticleAm J Speech Lang Pathol · November 4, 2024
PURPOSE: Diagnosis of language impairments after stroke is important to optimizing stroke outcomes. After right hemisphere brain damage (RHD), apragmatism can impact the comprehension and production of pragmatic language. However, despite decades of empiri ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · February 12, 2024
PURPOSE: The chronicity of spatial neglect (SN) and the utility of existing diagnostic measures used by speech-language pathologists remain poorly understood. In this retrospective study, we examined how the RHDBank test battery informs the identification ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Lang Commun Disord · March 2023
BACKGROUND: Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are broad and fail to capture the essence of communication challenges needed for strok ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · January 12, 2023
PURPOSE: Atypical pragmatic language can impede quality health care access. Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) results in changes in pragmatic language use; however, little is known about whether there are racial/ethnic influences. Recent research indicat ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Speech Lang Pathol · October 25, 2022
PURPOSE: Hemispheric specialization for the comprehension and expression of linguistic and emotional prosody is typically attributed to the right hemisphere. This study used techniques adapted from meta-analysis to critically examine the strength of existi ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Speech Lang Pathol · September 7, 2022
PURPOSE: Examining discourse after right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can provide invaluable clinical data and insight into functional communication capabilities. Yet, clinicians preparing to enter the field may have limited experience eliciting and analy ...
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Journal ArticleJ Int Neuropsychol Soc · August 2022
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OBJECTIVE: To identify which aspects of prosody are negatively affected subsequent to right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) and to evaluate the methodological quality of the constituent studies. METHOD: Twenty-one electronic databases were searched to identi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · February 9, 2022
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BACKGROUND: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can cause challenges with information gathering. Cognitive processes aid in implicit and explicit information gathering, yet the relationship between these processes and question-asking, the most explicit ave ...
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Journal ArticleTop Lang Disord · 2021
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PURPOSE: Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) commonly causes pragmatic language disorders that are apparent in discourse production. Specific characteristics and approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders are not well-defined. RH ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · March 23, 2020
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Purpose Right-hemisphere brain damage (RHD) can affect pragmatic aspects of communication that may contribute to an impaired ability to gather information. Questions are an explicit means of gathering information. Question types vary in terms of the demand ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · March 31, 2016
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Discourse production deficits associated with right hemisphere disorder (RHD) can impede aspects of daily living, including socialization, community reintegration, and vocational duties. Adults with RHD are referred to speech-language pathologists ...
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Thesis Dissertation · December 15, 2014
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Pragmatic communication deficits are among the most recognized deficits following right
hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Deficits in one’s ability to comprehend and produce
appropriate language leads to conversational exchanges that are often unsuccessful. R ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication · April 2014
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A comprehensive augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation is critical to providing a viable means of expressive communication for nonverbal people with complex communication needs. Although a number of diagnostic tools are availab ...
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