Speaking in ellipses: The effect of a compensatory style of speech on functional communication in chronic agrammatism

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-458

  Ruiter, Marina B ^a   Kolk, Herman H J ^b   Rietveld, Toni C M ^b  

^a SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agrammatic speech; Between subject variability; Compensation therapy; Functional communication; Speaking in ellipses

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH THERAPY; STROKE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEMANTICS; STROKE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952691262     PISSN: 09602011     EISSN: 14640694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09602010903399287     Document Type: Article

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