Quantifying connected speech samples of adults with chronic aphasia
Abstract This study quantifies connected speech samples of post-acute adults with mild, moderate and severe levels of aphasia. Yorkston and Beukelman (1980) established utterance production values for 50 adults with mild and moderate aphasic impairments. The present study reports mean and standard deviation syllable and utterance content values for severe impairments as well, based on the performance profiles of 103 adults with aphasia.
This is a phenomenological study of the communication processes around quality in a symphony chorus, addressing the research question, How do the communication processes in which organizational mem...