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Am J Speech Lang Pathol
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July 17, 2026
PURPOSE: Language deficits affecting multiple domains (e.g., semantics, pragmatics) have been reported after right-hemisphere (RH) stroke. The goal of the current study was to summarize the existing knowledge within the apragmatism framework. METHOD: A Pre ...
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Am J Speech Lang Pathol
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June 25, 2026
PURPOSE: This study investigated patterns of question use in conversation among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) by analyzing the frequency, types, and social actions of the questions. METHOD: Questions from conversational discourse transcript ...
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Am J Speech Lang Pathol
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April 23, 2026
PURPOSE: Right hemisphere brain damage occurs in nearly 50% of stroke survivors in the United States. Despite the incidence and substantial challenges faced by right hemisphere stroke survivors, insights of poststroke experiences by clinicians, researchers ...
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International Journal of Qualitative Methods
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January 1, 2026
Purpose of the Research: Immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare, life-threatening condition with long-term impacts on survivors’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). A top HRQoL concern among TTP survivors is cognitive dysfunction. H ...
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Am J Speech Lang Pathol
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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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J Speech Lang Hear Res
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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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Int J Lang Commun Disord
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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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J Speech Lang Hear Res
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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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Am J Speech Lang Pathol
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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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Am J Speech Lang Pathol
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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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J Int Neuropsychol Soc
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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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J Speech Lang Hear Res
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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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Top Lang Disord
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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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J Speech Lang Hear Res
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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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Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
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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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Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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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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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
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