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Vallila-Rohter, Sofia; Kiran, Swathi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: Our purpose was to study strategy use during nonlinguistic category learning in aphasia. Method: Twelve control participants without aphasia and 53 participants with aphasia (PWA) completed a computerized feedback-based category learning task consisting of training and testing phases. Accuracy rates of categorization in testing phases…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Comparative Analysis, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods
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O'Halloran, Robyn; Worrall, Linda; Hickson, Louise – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: Previous research has identified that many patients admitted into acute hospital stroke units have communication-related impairments such as hearing, vision, speech, language and/or cognitive communicative impairment. However, no research has identified how many patients in acute hospital stroke units have difficulty actually…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Foreign Countries, Vision, Patients
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Worrall, Linda; McCooey, Robyn; Davidson, Bronwyn; Larkins, Brigette; Hickson, Louise – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
Three studies observed everyday communication of people with aphasia, traumatic brain injury, and in hospital. Simplification of real-life communication in the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health, variability of item sampling in existing assessments, and the complexity of real-life…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Children, Classification