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Direct linkFraas, Michael; Balz, Magdalen A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
In addition to the impaired ability to effectively communicate, adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) also experience high incidences of depression, social isolation, and decreased quality of life. Expressive writing programs have been shown to be effective in alleviating these concomitant impairments in other populations including incarcerated…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Social Integration, Neurological Impairments, Injuries
Peer reviewedMentis, Michelle; Prutting, Carol A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1987
Cohesion strategies used by three normal and three head-injured adults were examined in both conversational and narrative conditions. Head-injured subjects used different cohesion patterns than normal adults in both conditions; and both groups used different cohesion patterns in the conversational and narrative conditions. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Coherence, Expressive Language, Injuries
Peer reviewedMentis, Michelle; Prutting, Carol A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study developed a multidimensional topic analysis sensitive to patterns in topic management appropriate for use with head-injured adults. Language samples of a closed-head-injured adult and a matched normal adult were compared. Results demonstrated the analysis' potential to reliably identify, quantify, and describe differences between…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Head Injuries
Peer reviewedLiles, Betty Z.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Twenty-three normal adults and four closed head-injured (CHI) adults with a high level of language recovery retold and generated stories. The two tasks differentially influenced the performance of both groups. The two groups differed in measures of cohesiveness and story grammar only in the story generation task. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Coherence, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedBloom, Ronald L.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study examined the effect of emotional content on the verbal pragmatic aspects of discourse production in right-brain-damaged (RBD), left-brain-damaged (LBD), and normal control adults. In the nonemotional conditions, LBDs were particularly impaired in pragmatics, whereas in the emotional condition, RBDs demonstrated pragmatic deficits.…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedBiddle, Kathleen R.; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1996
This study used dependency analysis to document and describe the narrative discourse impairments of 10 children (mean age 12) and 10 adults (mean age 35) with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and matched controls. Individuals with TBI were significantly more disfluent than controls and their narrative performance required a significant listener…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis
