Background: Various investigators suggest that some discourse‐level comprehension difficulties in adults with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) have a lexical‐semantic basis. As words are processed, the intact arouses and sustains activation of wide‐ranging network secondary or peripheral meanings features—a phenomenon dubbed "coarse coding". Coarse coding impairment has been postulated to underpin prototypical RHD deficits, such as nonliteral language interpretation, discourse...

Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) were first described in 2013 with an international survey documenting 12 unique programs. ICAPs involve high dose intervention delivered both group and individual settings, targeting communication across impairment, functioning, participation, contextual domains. In this study, we aimed to investigate growth ICAPs.We developed a 43-item questionnaire expanding on the original version program modifications, activities, protocolised therapies,...

Abstract Background: Difficulties in social cognition and interaction can characterise adults with unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). Some pertinent evidence involves their apparently poor reasoning from a "Theory of Mind" perspective, which requires capacity to attribute thoughts, beliefs, intentions order understand other people's behaviour. Theory Mind is typically assessed tasks that induce conflicting mental representations. Prior research commonly used text task reported...

Coarse coding is the activation of broad semantic fields that can include multiple word meanings and a variety features, including those peripheral to word's core meaning. It partially domain-general process related general discourse comprehension contributes both literal non-literal language processing. Adults with damage right cerebral hemisphere (RHD) coarse deficit are particularly slow activate features words relatively distant or peripheral. This manuscript reports pre-efficacy study...

BACKGROUND: Adults with aphasia often try mightily to produce specific words, but their word-finding attempts are frequently unsuccessful. However, the word retrieval process may contain rich information that communicates a desired message regardless of success. AIMS: The original article reprinted here reports an investigation assessed whether patient-generated self cues inherent in could be interpreted by listener/observers and improve on communicative effectiveness for adults aphasia....

BACKGROUND: The right cerebral hemisphere (RH) sustains activation of subordinate, secondary, less common, and/or distantly related meanings words. Much the pertinent data come from studies homonyms, but some evidence also suggests that RH has a unique maintenance function in relation to unambiguous nouns. In divided visual field priming study, Atchley, Burgess, and Keeney (1999) reported only left field/RH presentation yielded continuing peripheral semantic features were incompatible with...

Abstract Background: The study of communicative gestures is one considerable interest for aphasia, in relation to theory, diagnosis, and treatment. Significant limitations currently permeate the general (psycho)linguistic literature on gesture production, attention these essential both continued investigation clinical application people with aphasia. Aims: aims this paper are discuss issues imperative advancing production provide specific suggestions applying material herein studies Main...

Purpose: This article characterizes graduate student clinicians' (GSCs') understanding of their roles as stakeholders in clinical implementation and research before participating an intensive comprehensive aphasia program (ICAP). Method: Seven GSCs participated a pre-ICAP intervention focus group to characterize perceived stakeholder-engaged research. Following extensive ICAP training orientation clarification key definitions, the prompt asked describe what they view important issues for...

Background Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Programs (ICAPs) provide a variety of therapies for cohorts individuals with aphasia. Converging evidence proof concept and acceptability data demonstrates that ICAPs improve patient outcomes; however, efforts to build the ICAP base are vital optimize its implementation justify potential reimbursement.

BACKGROUND: This manuscript reports generalization effects of Contextual Constraint Treatment for an adult with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD). is designed to stimulate inefficient language comprehension processes implicitly, by providing linguistic context prime, or constrain, the intended interpretations treatment stimuli. The study participant had a coarse coding deficit, defined as delayed mental activation particularly distant semantic features words (e.g., rotten feature "apple")....

Purpose: The purpose of the single-subject study was to explore possible relationship between weighted blanket applications and sleep quality in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behavioral manifestations sensory processing deficits.

Background The Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP) is a rehabilitation service delivery model initially articulated in seminal article featured the 2013 Special Issue of Topics Stroke Rehabilitation. Over past decade, ICAP has experienced notable surge prominence, leading to burgeoning research base and worldwide implementation clinical practice.

Purpose This study examined the functioning of a central comprehension mechanism, suppression, in adults with right-hemisphere damage (RHD) while they processed narratives that cued shift time frame. In normal language comprehension, mental activation concepts from prior frame is suppressed. The (re)activation information following was also assessed. Method Twenty (12 RHD; 8 non brain–damaged) completed speeded word recognition task listening to 2 conditions: (“an hour later”) and no (“a...

Q What are the effects of a 20-minute lecture targeting communication partner training on behaviors speech-language pathology students during conversations with individuals liv...