Reliability and concurrent validity of the information unit scoring metric for the story retelling procedure

McNeil, Malcolm R.; Doyle, Patrick J.; Fossett, Tepanta R. D.; Park, Grace H.; Goda, Amy J.

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“…A different form was administered to participants at each of the four measurement points. Their retells were audio recorded and scored according to standardized procedures described by McNeil, Doyle, Fossett, Park, and Goda (2001) to obtain an estimate of the informativeness of their connected speech, which we report as our outcome measure.…”

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Description of an Intensive Residential Aphasia Treatment Program: Rationale, Clinical Processes, and Outcomes

Winans-Mitrik

Hula

Dickey

et al. 2014

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to describe the rationale, clinical processes, and outcomes of an intensive comprehensive aphasia program (ICAP). Method Seventy-three community-dwelling adults with aphasia completed a residentially based ICAP. Participants received 5 hr of daily 1:1 evidence-based cognitive-linguistically oriented aphasia therapy, supplemented with weekly socially oriented and therapeutic group activities over a 23-day treatment course. Standardized measures of aphasia severity and communicative functioning were obtained at baseline, program entry, program exit, and follow-up. Results were analyzed using a Bayesian latent growth curve model with 2 factors representing (a) the initial level and (b) change over time, respectively, for each outcome measure. Results Model parameter estimates showed reliable improvement on all outcome measures between the initial and final assessments. Improvement during the treatment interval was greater than change observed across the baseline interval, and gains were maintained at follow-up on all measures. Conclusions The rationale, clinical processes, and outcomes of a residentially based ICAP have been described. ICAPs differ with respect to treatments delivered, dosing parameters, and outcomes measured. Specifying the defining components of complex interventions, establishing their feasibility, and describing their outcomes are necessary to guide the development of controlled clinical trials.

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Description of an Intensive Residential Aphasia Treatment Program: Rationale, Clinical Processes, and Outcomes

Winans-Mitrik

Hula

Dickey

et al. 2014

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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“…For this reason, systematic approaches for studying discourse have been developed to capture multiple facets of discourse production (Marini, Andreetta, del Tin, & Carlomagno, 2011;Saffran, Berndt, & Schwartz, 1989;Shewan, 1988); and, to quantify the informativeness of connected speech (McNeil, Doyle, Fossett, Park, & Goda, 2001;Nicholas & Brookshire, 1993;Yorkston & Beukelman, 1980). Yet, measuring connected speech in typical clinical settings is a challenging task due to the dynamic and multiply determined nature of discourse (Armstrong, 2000;Prins & Bastiaanse, 2004;Spreen & Risser, 2003).…”

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Modelling confrontation naming and discourse performance in aphasia

Fergadiotis

Wright

2015

Aphasiology

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Background: It is well documented in the literature that the ability to produce discourse is what matters most to people with aphasia (PWA) and their families. However, quantifying discourse in typical clinical settings is a challenging task due to its dynamic and multiply determined nature. As a result, professionals often depend on confrontation naming tests to identify and measure impaired underlying cognitive mechanisms that are also hypothesised to be important for discourse production. Aims: The main goals of the study were to investigate the extent to which confrontation naming test (CNT) scores are predictive of (i) the proportion of paraphasias in connect speech, and (ii) the amount of information PWA can effectively communicate. Methods & Procedures: Data from 98 monolingual PWA were retrieved from AphasiaBank and analysed using structural equation modelling. Performance in CNTs was modelled as a latent variable based on the Boston Naming Test, the Western Aphasia Battery-R Naming Subtest, and the Verb Naming Test. Performance at the discourse level was modelled based on the observed proportions of paraphasias in three discourse tasks (free speech, eventcasts, and story retell). Informativeness was quantified using the percentage of Correct Information Units based on story re-tell. Outcomes & Results: For the first question, the regression coefficient between the two latent factors was estimated to be -0.52. When the latent factor based on the CNTs was regressed on informativeness, the estimated regression coefficient was equal to 0.68. Conclusions: Performance on CNTs was not a strong predictor of the proportion of paraphasias produced in connected speech but was substantially higher for the amount of information communicated by PWA. Clinicians are cautioned not to predict a speaker's performance at the discourse level after establishing CNT performance. Other anomic behaviours (e.g., pauses) during discourse production may be associated with CNT performance and should be considered in future investigations.

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“…number of possible information units (IUs) 1 is predetermined for each story and information transfer is measured by the percentage of IUs produced (McNeil, Doyle, Fossett, & Park, 2000). IUs are coded as those specific words reproduced from the story (direct IUs) or their legitimate synonyms (alternative IUs).…”

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Reliability and concurrent validity of the information unit scoring metric for the story retelling procedure

Cited by 66 publications

References 13 publications

Description of an Intensive Residential Aphasia Treatment Program: Rationale, Clinical Processes, and Outcomes

Description of an Intensive Residential Aphasia Treatment Program: Rationale, Clinical Processes, and Outcomes

Modelling confrontation naming and discourse performance in aphasia

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