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Prediction of Word-Finding From Semantic Relations
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The Nature of Word Finding Abilities Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Various authors have noted anomia, or word finding difficulties, to be a frequent sign following traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, there has been very little research which has examained the nature of these word finding problems. The present study was designed to answer the following …
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Children's Word-Finding Test (Revised): Diagnostic utility, developmental influences, and construct dimensions in a heterogeneous clinic-referred sample.
… and construct dimensions of the Children's Word Finding Test (Revised; CWFT-R) within a developmental framework. Participants consisted of 361 diagnostically heterogeneous children between the ages 6 through 8 years inclusive who were assessed on a comprehensive neuropsychological battery of …
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A mixed method investigation into the impact of activation therapy with and without word finding for people with aphasia
… aphasia indicate that therapy which involves word finding practice can help people with aphasia find words. Research has also suggested that the impact of therapy can generalise to other words not used in therapy and that it can have a positive impact on communication skills and feelings of …
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The Effect of a Single Bout of Physical Exertion on Expressive Language and Word Finding in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
… Fatigue Group generated significantly fewer words when given a letter of the alphabet or asked to generate words within an abstract category compared to the Control Fatigue Group, the Control Rest Group and the Intervention Rest Group. Analysis of narrative production skills revealed the …
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Boston Naming Test with Latencies (BNT-L)
Although most people have experienced word-finding difficulty at one time or another, there are no clinical instruments able to reliably distinguish normal age-related effects from pathology in word-finding impairment. Two experiments were conducted to establish a modified version of the Boston …
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Goal Orientation and Responses to Negative Feedback
… regarding their performance on a Boggle® word finding task. Half of the participants received normative feedback only, while half received both normative and developmental feedback. Developmental feedback significantly improved performance, use of strategies and use of a wider variety of …
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Development and Validation of a New Naming Task: The Southwestern Item Fluency Test (SWIFT)
… across groups, and often ignore speed of word retrieval even though this is a prominent component of word-finding difficulties (WFD). The aim of the current study was to develop and validate a brief, psychometrically sound naming task that is sensitive to WFD. One-hundred items were …
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Blissymbolics as an Augmentative Communication Tool for Adults with Expressive Aphasia
… subject with:</p> <ol> <li>Improved skills at word-finding and speech production, as measured by the Porch Index of Communicative Ability;</li> <li>The ability to express feelings, ideas, wants, and needs on a spontaneous basis which previously could not be generated spontaneously through …
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Benefit of Phonemic Cueing in Alzheimer's Disease Patients' Naming Performance: Baseline Correlates and Predictive Utility
Word-finding difficulty, especially when confronted with naming items, is a well-known problem that many individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) encounter. The use of neuropsychological measures, imaging technology, and genetic research has all contributed to the understanding of naming deficits …
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The use of gestures in the conversations of people with aphasia
… for gesture production, speech production, and word-finding difficulties (WFD). Results: The two groups of participants produced a similar number of gestures (t (37) = -1.060, p = .296). Gesture type was not examined statistically but showed some marginal differences between groups. Unfamiliar …
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The Talking Hands?: The Relation between Gesture and Language in Aphasic Patients
… and non-representational gestures in per-100-word and per-minute measures. We found that in aphasic subjects, as a group, gestures were quantitatively indistinguishable from those produced by normal controls. Also, qualitative analyses demonstrated that the aphasic subjects tended to use …
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Auditory comprehension: from the voice up to the single word level
… versus phoneme perception, as well as single word auditory comprehension in terms of phonemic and semantic content. In the first study, using sounds from different continua of ‘male’-/pæ/ to ‘female’-/tæ/ and ‘male’-/tæ/ to ‘female’-/pæ/, healthy participants (n=18) showed that phonemes are …