Full Description
This comprehensive volume provides balanced and easily readable chapters on contemporary topics around discourse production in patients with neurogenic disorders. Discourse broadly refers to a unit of language longer than a single sentence, typically used in a spoken or written format to express ideas, feelings, and opinions or to interact with others. As the field of research in speech-language pathology, aphasia and related neurogenic disorders, and clinical decision-making to manage neurogenic impairments is rapidly expanding, there has been an increased focus on discourse analysis and therapy to enable patients to speak well again. Various user groups and people with lived experience (e.g., aphasia, dementia, traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere damage, etc.) are also increasingly focused on the impact of neurogenic impairments on domains of conversation and changes in language skills beyond the smaller linguistic components of single words and sentences that are traditionally supported by speech-language therapy.
The first part of this book details and discusses the basic principles, historical perspectives (history and developmental milestones), neural basis, and recent evolutions and advancement of discourse analysis in speakers with acquired communication disorders. The second part of the book outlines and illustrates current methods for discourse elicitation and analysis across different clinical populations. Recent leaps forward in technology that can assist in the recording, processing, and analysis of discourse will be highlighted. The final part of book reviews and summarizes key developments of various evidenced-based training strategies, interventions, and treatment programs, as well as utilization of innovative technology to clinically improve neurogenic disordered discourse.
This is an ideal guide for researchers, clinicians, and students in the field of communication sciences and disorders, speech and language therapy, gerontology, (neuro-)linguistics, psychology, and related fields in clinical medicine.
Contents
Historical review of research in discourse deficits and its recent advancement.- Discourse characteristics in aphasia.- Discourse and conversation impairments in patients with dementia.- Using discourse as a measure of early cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers.- Discourse characteristics in traumatic brain injury.- Spoken discourse production following right hemisphere damage.- TalkBank methods for studying spoken discourse.- The structural neural correlates of spoken discourse.- The functional neural correlates of spoken discourse.- Co-speech gesture production in spoken discourse among speakers with acquired language disorders.- Discourse production in multilingual people with aphasia.- Clinically feasible analysis of discourse: Current state and looking forward.- Assessing impaired macrostructures in discourse production of persons with aphasia.- Assessing discourse ability in adults with traumatic brain injury.- Assessing discourse ability in adults with right hemisphere damage.- Automatic assessment of speech and language impairment in natural speech.- Machine learning, features, and computational approaches to discourse analysis.- Tele-assessment of cognition and discourse production.- Interventions targeting spoken discourse in aphasia.- Neuromodulation of impaired spoken discourse.- FOQUSAphasia: An initiative to facilitate research of spoken discourse in aphasia and its translation into improved evidence-based practice for discourse treatment.- Better Conversations with aphasia and primary progressive aphasia.- Improving communication with people living with dementia: A socio-cognitive approach.- Communication treatment approaches to improve discourse production in traumatic brain injury.- Telepractice in language and discourse-based interventions for older adults: Theoretical and methodological approaches.- Communication Partner Training (CPT) to improve conversation, communication, and mental health.
