Techniques for transcribers: assessing and improving consistency in transcripts of spoken language

Garrard, Peter; Haigh, Anne-Marie; Jager, Celeste de

doi:10.1093/llc/fqr018

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“…This test requires the participant to describe what is happening in the picture. The verbal description of the figure was recorded and then transcribed from the MP3 file, following standard procedures 63. In this study, we employed the Cookie Theft narrative test and evaluated a series of linguistic functions.…”

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Beneficial effects of multisensory and cognitive stimulation on age-related cognitive decline in long-term-care institutions

Oliveira

Soares

Macedo

et al. 2014

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The aim of the present report was to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of multisensory and cognitive stimulation on improving cognition in elderly persons living in long-term-care institutions (institutionalized [I]) or in communities with their families (noninstitutionalized [NI]). We compared neuropsychological performance using language and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) test scores before and after 24 and 48 stimulation sessions. The two groups were matched by age and years of schooling. Small groups of ten or fewer volunteers underwent the stimulation program, twice a week, over 6 months (48 sessions in total). Sessions were based on language and memory exercises, as well as visual, olfactory, auditory, and ludic stimulation, including music, singing, and dance. Both groups were assessed at the beginning (before stimulation), in the middle (after 24 sessions), and at the end (after 48 sessions) of the stimulation program. Although the NI group showed higher performance in all tasks in all time windows compared with I subjects, both groups improved their performance after stimulation. In addition, the improvement was significantly higher in the I group than the NI group. Language tests seem to be more efficient than the MMSE to detect early changes in cognitive status. The results suggest the impoverished environment of long-term-care institutions may contribute to lower cognitive scores before stimulation and the higher improvement rate of this group after stimulation. In conclusion, language tests should be routinely adopted in the neuropsychological assessment of elderly subjects, and long-term-care institutions need to include regular sensorimotor, social, and cognitive stimulation as a public health policy for elderly persons.

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Beneficial effects of multisensory and cognitive stimulation on age-related cognitive decline in long-term-care institutions

Oliveira

Soares

Macedo

et al. 2014

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“…Cookie Theft descriptions were transcribed following the conventions described by Garrard et al (2011) , and analysed using the method described by Wilson et al (2010) , with minor adaptations as documented in Ahmed et al (2012) . This approach uses the classification of normal and abnormal discourse proposed by Saffran et al (1989) , and uses the quantitative production analysis techniques described by Berndt et al (2000) .…”

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Connected speech as a marker of disease progression in autopsy-proven Alzheimer’s disease

Ahmed

Haigh

Jager

et al. 2013

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Although an insidious history of episodic memory difficulty is a typical presenting symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, detailed neuropsychological profiling frequently demonstrates deficits in other cognitive domains, including language. Previous studies from our group have shown that language changes may be reflected in connected speech production in the earliest stages of typical Alzheimer’s disease. The aim of the present study was to identify features of connected speech that could be used to examine longitudinal profiles of impairment in Alzheimer’s disease. Samples of connected speech were obtained from 15 former participants in a longitudinal cohort study of ageing and dementia, in whom Alzheimer’s disease was diagnosed during life and confirmed at post-mortem. All patients met clinical and neuropsychological criteria for mild cognitive impairment between 6 and 18 months before converting to a status of probable Alzheimer’s disease. In a subset of these patients neuropsychological data were available, both at the point of conversion to Alzheimer’s disease, and after disease severity had progressed from the mild to moderate stage. Connected speech samples from these patients were examined at later disease stages. Spoken language samples were obtained using the Cookie Theft picture description task. Samples were analysed using measures of syntactic complexity, lexical content, speech production, fluency and semantic content. Individual case analysis revealed that subtle changes in language were evident during the prodromal stages of Alzheimer’s disease, with two-thirds of patients with mild cognitive impairment showing significant but heterogeneous changes in connected speech. However, impairments at the mild cognitive impairment stage did not necessarily entail deficits at mild or moderate stages of disease, suggesting non-language influences on some aspects of performance. Subsequent examination of these measures revealed significant linear trends over the three stages of disease in syntactic complexity, semantic and lexical content. The findings suggest, first, that there is a progressive disruption in language integrity, detectable from the prodromal stage in a subset of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, and secondly that measures of semantic and lexical content and syntactic complexity best capture the global progression of linguistic impairment through the successive clinical stages of disease. The identification of disease-specific language impairment in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease could enhance clinicians’ ability to distinguish probable Alzheimer’s disease from changes attributable to ageing, while longitudinal assessment could provide a simple approach to disease monitoring in therapeutic trials.

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“…The subjects' picture descriptions were transcribed from tape following the conventions set out by Garrard et al 25. The picture description task should ideally elicit a monologue by the subject, but in practice the subject is often heard asking questions about the task (such as ‘is that all right?’) and the examiner supplying comments, prompts or ‘back channel signals’ (such as ‘mmhmm’ or ‘yes’) 26.…”

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Logopenic aphasia in Alzheimer's disease: clinical variant or clinical feature?

Ahmed

Jager

Haigh

et al. 2012

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry

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The impairment found in clinically typical early stage AD did not correspond consistently to the linguistic profiles described in any of the sub-syndromes of PPA. The only reliably distinguishing feature was a reduction across a range of syntactic complexity measures. The findings suggest that LPA represents an atypical clinical presentation of AD rather than a common clinical feature of typical AD.

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Techniques for transcribers: assessing and improving consistency in transcripts of spoken language

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Beneficial effects of multisensory and cognitive stimulation on age-related cognitive decline in long-term-care institutions

Beneficial effects of multisensory and cognitive stimulation on age-related cognitive decline in long-term-care institutions

Connected speech as a marker of disease progression in autopsy-proven Alzheimer’s disease

Logopenic aphasia in Alzheimer's disease: clinical variant or clinical feature?

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