The effect of an aphasia ID card on the processing of language produced by a speaker with nonfluent aphasia

Ward, Colleen; Mack, Jennifer E.

doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2022.106268

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“…With respect to comprehension challenges, we expected that self-advocacy scripts would increase listeners' sustained attention to the speakers' language content, which would help them meet the challenges of comprehending the speakers. In a previous study, we found that listeners who viewed an aphasia ID card showed greater sustained attention to the language content of a speaker with aphasia than those who did not (Ward & Mack, 2022). Similarly, self-disclosure of stuttering has been shown to improve listeners' attention to the speaker (Byrd, Croft, et al, 2017;Werle et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 78%

Listening to Aphasia Self-Advocacy Scripts: Thoughts and Emotions Reported by Unfamiliar Communication Partners

Mack,

Grossman,

Ward

et al. 2023

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Background: Self-advocacy scripts are brief, scripted narratives that people with aphasia (PWA) use to self-disclose their aphasia, explain what it is, and request supportive communicative behaviors from communication partners (CPs). In previous research, PWA have reported that self-advocacy statements, including self-advocacy scripts, facilitate their interactions with unfamiliar CPs. To understand the benefits of self-advocacy scripts, it is important to directly investigate how unfamiliar CPs respond to them. Aims: The aim of this study was to characterize the thoughts and emotions reported by unfamiliar adults after listening to self-advocacy scripts produced by speakers with aphasia.Methods & Procedures: This experimental study included 238 non-aphasic adult participants. Each participant was randomly assigned to listen to one script produced by a speaker with nonfluent aphasia and apraxia of speech: either a self-advocacy script or a control script about the weather that does not mention the speaker’s aphasia. Then, they answered one open-ended question (analyzed using a codebook approach) and eight rating scale questions (analyzed using Bayesian linear regression) about the thoughts and emotions they experienced while listening to the speaker. In a within-study replication, the experiment was performed twice, using scripts from two speakers with aphasia. Outcomes & Results: Compared to the control script, the self-advocacy script improved listeners’ knowledge about the speakers’ condition, their perception of the speakers’ intelligence, and their patience and empathy for the speakers.Conclusions: Aphasia self-advocacy scripts can have powerful, positive effects on unfamiliar listeners. The present results highlight the importance of providing support in clinical practice for self-advocacy, including collaborative development of self-advocacy scripts between people with aphasia and their clinicians.

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Section: Thoughts and Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 78%

Listening to Aphasia Self-Advocacy Scripts: Thoughts and Emotions Reported by Unfamiliar Communication Partners

Mack,

Grossman,

Ward

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Only one third of the experimental trials had a cloze that fit the linguistic context. Listeners are able to adapt to speakers who are known to be unreliable (e.g., Brothers et al, 2019 ), to have a communication disorder (e.g., Ward and Mack, 2022 ), or to have “non-native” speaker status (e.g., Bosker et al, 2019 ). Additionally, recent ERP research indicates that task-related goals affect the generation of lexical predictions ( Brothers et al, 2017 ).…”

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Effects of linguistic context and noise type on speech comprehension

Fitzgerald,

DeDe,

Shen

2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionUnderstanding speech in background noise is an effortful endeavor. When acoustic challenges arise, linguistic context may help us fill in perceptual gaps. However, more knowledge is needed regarding how different types of background noise affect our ability to construct meaning from perceptually complex speech input. Additionally, there is limited evidence regarding whether perceptual complexity (e.g., informational masking) and linguistic complexity (e.g., occurrence of contextually incongruous words) interact during processing of speech material that is longer and more complex than a single sentence. Our first research objective was to determine whether comprehension of spoken sentence pairs is impacted by the informational masking from a speech masker. Our second objective was to identify whether there is an interaction between perceptual and linguistic complexity during speech processing.MethodsWe used multiple measures including comprehension accuracy, reaction time, and processing effort (as indicated by task-evoked pupil response), making comparisons across three different levels of linguistic complexity in two different noise conditions. Context conditions varied by final word, with each sentence pair ending with an expected exemplar (EE), within-category violation (WV), or between-category violation (BV). Forty young adults with typical hearing performed a speech comprehension in noise task over three visits. Each participant heard sentence pairs presented in either multi-talker babble or spectrally shaped steady-state noise (SSN), with the same noise condition across all three visits.ResultsWe observed an effect of context but not noise on accuracy. Further, we observed an interaction of noise and context in peak pupil dilation data. Specifically, the context effect was modulated by noise type: context facilitated processing only in the more perceptually complex babble noise condition.DiscussionThese findings suggest that when perceptual complexity arises, listeners make use of the linguistic context to facilitate comprehension of speech obscured by background noise. Our results extend existing accounts of speech processing in noise by demonstrating how perceptual and linguistic complexity affect our ability to engage in higher-level processes, such as construction of meaning from speech segments that are longer than a single sentence.

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Listening to self-advocacy scripts produced by speakers with Broca’s aphasia and apraxia of speech: thoughts and emotions reported by unfamiliar communication partners

Mack,

Grossman,

Ward

et al. 2024

Aphasiology

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The effect of an aphasia ID card on the processing of language produced by a speaker with nonfluent aphasia

Cited by 3 publications

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Listening to Aphasia Self-Advocacy Scripts: Thoughts and Emotions Reported by Unfamiliar Communication Partners

Listening to Aphasia Self-Advocacy Scripts: Thoughts and Emotions Reported by Unfamiliar Communication Partners

Effects of linguistic context and noise type on speech comprehension

Listening to self-advocacy scripts produced by speakers with Broca’s aphasia and apraxia of speech: thoughts and emotions reported by unfamiliar communication partners

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