The use of main concept analysis to measure discourse production in Cantonese-speaking persons with aphasia: a preliminary report.

Abstract:

UNLABELLED:Discourse produced by speakers with aphasia contains rich and valuable information for researchers to understand the manifestation of aphasia as well as for clinicians to plan specific treatment components for their clients. Various approaches to investigate aphasic discourse have been proposed in the English literature. However, this is not the case in Chinese. As a result, clinical evaluations of aphasic discourse have not been a common practice. This problem is further compounded by the lack of validated stimuli that are culturally appropriate for language elicitation. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to develop and validate four sequential pictorial stimuli for elicitation of language samples in Cantonese speakers with aphasia, and (b) to investigate the use of a main concept measurement, a clinically oriented quantitative system, to analyze the elicited language samples. Twenty speakers with aphasia and ten normal speakers were invited to participate in this study. The aphasic group produced significantly less key information than the normal group. More importantly, a strong relationship was also found between aphasia severity and production of main concepts. While the results of the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability suggested the scoring system to be reliable, the test-retest results yielded strong and significant correlations across two testing sessions one to three weeks apart. LEARNING OUTCOMES:Readers will demonstrate better understanding of (1) the development and validation of newly devised sequential pictorial stimuli to elicit oral language production, and (2) the use of a main concept measurement to quantify aphasic connected speech in Cantonese Chinese.

journal_name

J Commun Disord

authors

Kong AP

doi

10.1016/j.jcomdis.2009.06.002

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-11-01 00:00:00

pages

442-64

issue

6

eissn

0021-9924

issn

1873-7994

pii

S0021-9924(09)00056-2

journal_volume

42

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