Browsing College of Allied Health Sciences by Author "Wright, Heather Harris"
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Development of a Measure of Function Word Use in Narrative Discourse: Core Lexicon Analysis in Aphasia
Kim, Hana; Wright, Heather Harris; Kintz, Stephen (2021-01) -
Discourse Process Training and Attention Process Training 2 in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury
Henderson, Amy (East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often present with relatively preserved lexical and grammatical skills but exhibit discourse level deficits which negatively affect functional communication. Discourse following ... -
Discourse Processing in Neurologically Healthy Adults: A Cross-Modal Eye tracking Study
Sharma, Saryu (East Carolina University, 2021-07-20)One of the methods to study discourse comprehension is inference revision. Inferencing can be defined as a controlled, information-generation process that requires deductive reasoning abilities (Kintsch, 1998). Studies ... -
Gender differences in aphasia outcomes: evidence from the AphasiaBank
Wright, Heather Harris; Perry, Jamie L.; Fang, Xiangming; Ellis, Charles; Sharma, Saryu (2019-09) -
MEASUREMENT OF WORD RETRIEVAL IN THE DISCOURSE OF PERSONS WITH APHASIA: STANDARD CORE LEXICON ITEM DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES
Kim, Hana (East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Core lexicon measures are a quantitative measure of lexical use in discourse for persons with aphasia. It is intended to provide clinicians with a clinician-friendly means to quantify lexical use in discourse based on ... -
Multilevel Discourse Processing Analyses in Adults with a Cognitive Impairment
Kintz, Stephen (East Carolina University, 2016-12-13)Participants with a cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) present with discourse impairments early within the disorder. These discourse impairment are associated with declines in episodic, semantic, ...