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This study investigated factors associated with resilience in individuals with aphasia. Resilience is a phenomenon demonstrated when a healthy system of adaptation is present across several levels including individual or personal, family, community or society, in response to exposure to adversity such as communication impairment. Resilience was examined from the perspective of individuals who have experienced aphasia, and their families and caregivers. Sub-factors associated with successful outcomes for individuals with aphasia were identified through a qualitative approach using content analysis of personal interviews with persons who have experienced aphasia, their families, and caregivers. These sub-factors were grouped thematically to constitute the following major factors associated with the demonstration of resilience: support networks, person-first, and thinking positively. These factors represent the views of people with aphasia and their caregivers who participated in this study, and parallel factors associated with resilience that have been identified in previous research with related populations. / Speech Language Pathology

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-dis.--Greifswald. / Lebenslauf. "Litteratur": p. [31].

A universal characteristic of aphasia is anomia, the impairment of naming abilities. The Boston Naming Test (BNT) is frequently used to measure change in response to treatment over short intervals. It is unclear, however, how much change can be expected over long periods of time. This study examined long-term recovery of naming abilities using BNT scores from 52 individuals who participated in clinical and research settings at the University of Arizona. Each individual’s change on the BNT was tracked over the course of their participation, allowing for calculation of the extent and rate of change in naming performance. In addition, independent variables were evaluated for their predictive value relative to naming performance over time. There was significant improvement in naming on the BNT, regardless of age, education, and initial time post onset. The results indicate that for individuals who continue to participate in a rehabilitation context, improvement can be expected long after the onset of anomia.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University

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The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of pause duration and frequency in speakers with moderate nonfluent aphasia and apraxia. The speech recordings analyzed in this study were produced by 16 adult speakers of American English (8 males and 8 females). Speech samples were provided by the AphasiaBank database (i.e., narrative samples from the Cinderella Story). Praat acoustic analysis software was used to code the speech samples for utterance boundaries and durations, as well as between and within filled and silent pause durations and frequencies. Results found a difference in silent versus filled pause durations, with silent pauses that were longer in duration than their filled pause counterparts. Differences in pause durations as a function of pause location were not found to be statistically significant. The majority of correlations between pause patterns and AQ rating were found to be insignificant, with just three measures that were statistically, but not clinically, significant. Gender differences in filled and silent pause durations and frequencies were not found to be significant. There was also a strong positive correlation between utterance duration and within utterance pause rate. Further research on speech pause in people with nonfluent aphasia and apraxia of speech with larger sample sizes, a variety of language contexts, and linguistic analyses is needed in order to better understand expected pause patterns in this population. Despite these limitations, this study provides further information on typical and atypical patterns of pause for clinicians who are assessing people with aphasia and apraxia.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karolinska institutet, 2007. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2005. / Typescript. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 66 pages. Includes Vita. Includes bibliographical references.