Oral and Written Picture Description in Individuals with Aphasia

Autor/inn/en	Vandenborre, Dorien; Visch-Brink, Evy; van Dun, Kim; Verhoeven, Jo; Mariën, Peter
Titel	Oral and Written Picture Description in Individuals with Aphasia
Quelle	In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 53 (2018) 2, S.294-307 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-2822
DOI	10.1111/1460-6984.12348
Schlagwörter	Aphasia; Indo European Languages; Control Groups; Diagnostic Tests; Oral Language; Written Language; Test Reliability; Syntax; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Error Analysis (Language); Comparative Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Connected Discourse; Matched Groups; Foreign Countries; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Indoeuropäisch; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Geschriebene Sprache; Testreliabilität; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Error analysis; Language; Fehleranalyse; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Belgien
Abstract	Background: Aphasia is characterized by difficulties in connected speech/writing. Aims: To explore the differences between the oral and written description of a picture in individuals with chronic aphasia (IWA) and healthy controls. Descriptions were controlled for productivity, efficiency, grammatical organization, substitution behaviour and discourse organization. Methods & Procedures: Fifty IWA and 50 healthy controls matched for age, gender and education provided an oral and written description of a black-and-white situational drawing from the Dutch version of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test. Between- and within-group analyses were carried out and the reliability of the test instrument was assessed. Outcomes & Results: The language samples of the healthy controls were more elaborate, more efficient, syntactically richer, more coherent, and consisted of fewer spoken and written language errors than the samples of the IWA. Within-group comparisons showed that connected writing is more sensitive than connected speech to capture aphasic symptoms. Conclusions & Implications: The analysis of both modalities (speech and writing) at the discourse level allows one to assess simultaneously micro- and macro-linguistic skills and their potential interrelations in a given IWA. Connected writing appears to be more sensitive in discriminating IWA from healthy controls than connected speech. This method for analyzing language samples should, however, be used in conjunction with other assessment tools. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01