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Title: Determinants of Multilevel Discourse Outcomes in Anomia Treatment for Aphasia.
Authors: Cavanaugh, Robert1,2,3, Dickey, Michael Walsh2,3, Hula, William D.2,3, Fromm, Davida4, Golovin, Jennifer3, Wambaugh, Julie5, Fergadiotis, Gerasimos6, Evans, William S.2,3
Source: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research. Sep2024, Vol. 67 Issue 9, p3094-3112. 19p.
Subject Terms: *Comparative grammar, *Phonological awareness, *Aphasia, *Retrospective studies, *Attention, *Motivation (Psychology), *Memory, *Communication, Anomia, Executive function, Evaluation of medical care, Linguistics, Semantics, Data analysis software
Geographic Terms: United States
Abstract: Purpose: Individuals with aphasia identify discourse-level communication (i.e., language in use) as a high priority for treatment. The central premise of most aphasia treatments is that restoring language at the phoneme, word, and/or sentence level will generalize to discourse. However, treatment-related changes in discourse-level communication are modest, are poorly understood, and vary greatly among individuals with aphasia. In response, this study consisted of a multilevel discourse analysis of archival, monologic discourse outcomes across two high-intensity Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) clinical trials. Aim 1 evaluated changes in theoretically motivated discourse outcomes representing lexical-semantic processing, lexical diversity, grammatical complexity, and discourse informativeness. Aim 2 explored the potential moderating role of nonlanguage cognitive factors (semantic memory, divided attention, and executive function) on discourse outcomes. Method: This study was a retrospective analysis of archival monologic discourse outcomes after intensive SFA for n = 60 (Aim 1) and a subset n = 44 (Aim 2). Outcome measures included lexical-semantic processing (% semantic errors), lexical diversity (moving average type-token ratio), grammatical complexity (mean utterance length), and discourse informativeness (% correct information units). Bayesian generalized mixed-effects models were used to examine changes across four study time points: enrollment, entry, exit, and 1-month follow-up. Results: The present study found no evidence for meaningful or statistically reliable improvements in monologue discourse performance after SFA when measured using standard, general-topic discourse stimuli. There was weak and inconsistent evidence that nonlanguage cognitive factors may play a role in moderating treatment response. Conclusions: These findings indicate a clear need to pair theoretically informed treatments designed to facilitate generalization to discourse with intentional measurement paradigms designed to capture it. Furthermore, there is a clear need to examine how established treatments, restorative or compensatory, can better facilitate generalization to discourse-level communication. These priorities are critical for meaningfully improving everyday communication and reducing the profound communication and psychosocial consequences of aphasia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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