Descriptive discourse in fluent aphasia: The predictive role of attention, phonology, lexical retrieval and semantics

CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: The current results do not support a strong relationship between basic attentional skills and performance in descriptive discourse in fluent aphasia. Although some of the standardized tasks seem to bear some relationship with spontaneous speech, there is a high amount of interindividual variability in discourse that is not captured by classical cognitive tasks routinely used in assessment. Further work on the determinants of discourse performance in aphasia and on the clinical application of discourse analysis is warranted.PMID:37216892 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106335
Source: Journal of Communication Disorders - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research