“…Investigations of impairment-based treatments typically focus treatment and outcome measures at the word or sentence level, although recently many studies have assessed whether these treatments of more basic linguistic units result in changed discourse production (Boyle, 2004a;Boyle & Coelho, 1995;Cameron, Wambaugh, Wright, & Nessler, 2006;Coelho, McHugh, & Boyle, 2000;Edmonds, Nadeau, & Kiran, 2008;Faroqi-Shah & Virion, 2009;Rider, Wright, Marshall, & Page, 2008;Schwartz, Saffran, Fink, Myers, & Martin, 1994). In part because the changes in discourse have been inconsistent, investigators have developed treatments that require people with aphasia to work on specific linguistic skills (e.g., word retrieval or syntactic formulation) while they are producing discourses.…”