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Jamila Minga

Jamila Minga

Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Communication Sciences
jamila.minga@duke.edu
Duke South Yellow Zone 4000, DUMC Box 3805, Durham, NC 27710
40 Medicine Circle, DUMC Box 3805, Durham, NC 27710

Featured Works

Aprosodia Subsequent to Right Hemisphere Brain Damage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Journal article J Int Neuropsychol Soc · August 2022 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Effects of Right Hemisphere Brain Damage on Question-Asking in Conversation.

Journal article J Speech Lang Hear Res · February 9, 2022 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Making Sense of Right Hemisphere Discourse Using RHDBank.

Journal article Top Lang Disord · 2021 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Question Use in Adults With Right-Hemisphere Brain Damage.

Journal article J Speech Lang Hear Res · March 23, 2020 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of Right Versus Left Hemisphere Stroke on Rehabilitation Outcomes

Conference JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH · November 1, 2019 Featured Publication Link to item Cite

Discourse Production and Right Hemisphere Disorder

Journal article Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · March 31, 2016 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

RHDBank Discourse Protocol Corpora

Dataset · 2016 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Question Use Following Right Hemisphere Brain Damage.

Thesis / Dissertation · December 15, 2014 Featured Publication 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 ... Cite

Developing an Effective Framework for the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Evaluation Process

Journal article Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication · April 2014 Featured Publication 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 ... Full text Cite

RHDBank Grand Rounds

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Question use in adults with right hemisphere brain damage

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