Basic parameters of spontaneous speech as a sensitive method for measuring change during the course of aphasia

Abstract

In comparison with conventional spontaneous speech rating scales, the basic parameters proved to be more sensitive to change. For the time being, however, some limitations remain with regard to the specificity of the basic parameters. Thus, additional data are needed to provide further support of the clinical significance of the measured changes.

Rapid recovery from aphasia after infarction of Wernicke’s area

“…Another alternative approach that would also be less time-consuming would be to use qualitative instead of quantitative assessments of connected speech samples, as in the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (Goodglass et al, 2001), and similar to the approach that dominates the field of motor speech disorders (Darley et al, 1969). However there has been little research to date comparing qualitative and quantitative analyses of connected speech (Grande et al, 2008). …”

From a concept to a word in a syntactically complete sentence: An fMRI study on spontaneous language production in an overt picture description task

“…• Occurrence of symptoms is characterised as either inside a clauselike unit (CLU) or in between CLUs (INTRA, INTER). A CLU is defined as a syntactically and/or prosodically marked part of speech referring to a proposition, containing one verb at most (Grande et al, 2008). • In addition, symptoms can be assigned to different categories considering different linguistic levels (sublexical, 3 lexical, morphological, syntactic) and symptoms (fragments, incomplete utterances, formulaic language), of which only two are relevant for the present study.…”

“…• In addition, symptoms can be assigned to different categories considering different linguistic levels (sublexical, 3 lexical, morphological, syntactic) and symptoms (fragments, incomplete utterances, formulaic language), of which only two are relevant for the present study. The category "lexical" comprises word-finding difficulties and semantic substitutions, while all those CLUs are marked as "incomplete", which do not fulfil the criterion for complete CLUs, namely that a verb and all its obligatory arguments are given (Grande et al, 2008). Criteria for word-finding difficulties were either pauses of 2 s minimum, at least two interjections (e.g., eh) or a short pause (1-2 s) and one interjection.…”

Small Groups, Big Gains: Efficacy of a Tier 2 Phonological Awareness Intervention With Preschoolers With Early Literacy Deficits

“…First, the smaller potential for improvement in the CIAT group possibly have resulted in a lesser mean improvement, making a comparison between the two groups difficult. Second, the ANELT is a qualitative measure, looking at the verbal response as a whole, whereas a linguistic analysis, a quantitative detailed description of parameters such as the type token ratio and mean length of utterance of the ANELT responses, might have been more sensitive to detect changes in verbal effectiveness over time (Doesborgh et al, 2004;Grande et al, 2008;Ruiter, Kolk, Rietveld, Dijkstra, & Lotgering, 2011). With the CETI, however, no statistically significant improvement was found for the CIAT group.…”