Stealing Cookies in the Twenty-First Century: Measures of Spoken Narrative in Healthy Versus Speakers With Aphasia

• DOI: 10.1044/2018_ajslp-17-0131
• Publication Date: 2018-09-18T12:39:38Z
• Authors: Shauna Berube; Jodi Nonnemacher; Cornelia Demsky; Shenly Glenn; Sadhvi Saxena; Amy Wright; Donna C. Tippett; Argye E. Hillis
• Keywords: Male; Observer Variation; Narration; Communication; Linguistics; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Stroke; 03 medical and health sciences; Aphasia, Primary Progressive; 0302 clinical medicine; Speech Production Measurement; Case-Control Studies; Aphasia; Humans; Female; Photic Stimulation; Aged

Purpose Our goal was to evaluate an updated version of the “Cookie Theft” picture by obtaining norms based on descriptions healthy controls for total content units (CUs), syllables per CU, and ratio left–right CUs. In addition, we aimed compare these measures from obtained individuals with poststroke aphasia primary progressive (PPA) assess whether can capture impairments in efficiency communication. Method Using this picture, analyzed 50 develop numbers syllables, CUs, CU. We provide preliminary data 44 (19 25 PPA). Results A 96 CUs were established written transcriptions spoken control participants. There a significant effect group The participants produced significantly fewer CU than those PPA. Each aphasic more lower (indicating right-sided bias) compared controls. Conclusions show that distinguish language output limitation study is evaluated only aphasia. future, will other measures, such as minute, lexical variability, grammaticality, nouns verbs. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7015223