Understanding Discourse Genre and Its Effects in Persons with Fluent Aphasia: A Preliminary Investigation

• 발행기관: 한국청각언어재활학회
• 저자명: Deepak Puttanna Mohammed Al Harbi Frannie Lamita Fernandes Yorick Smith Dsilva
• 간행물 정보: 『Audiology and Speech Research』Audiology and Speech Research 제21권 제1호, 39~50쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
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• 발행일자: 2025.01.31

국문 초록

Purpose Discourse analysis is an important component of aphasia assessment because it can provide insight into functional communication abilities of the participants. Understanding the essence of discourse becomes pivotal, as it is the most rudimentary way of communication in individuals’ daily routine. Hence, the present study aimed to explore the superiority of different discourse elicitation tasks in persons with fluent aphasia (PwFA). Methods A total of six PwFA were recruited for the study. These participants were assessed for their discourse abilities using three tasks: picture description, conversation, and narration. The participants' discourse samples were analysed using the discourse analysis scale. In all these tasks, the propositional and non-propositional aspects of communication were evaluated. After recording the responses, the scores of each task (picture description, conversation, and narration) were consolidated to compute the discourse quotient. Results Quantitative analysis revealed significant differences across general conversation compared to narration and picture description tasks. Out of these three tasks, general conversation is outperformed the other two tasks. Further, the individual case-wise analysis showed similar pattern of results. Conclusion The findings of this study hold significant implications for both clinical practice and research. Understanding the potency and setbacks of different discourse genres aids speech language pathologist to analyse the discourse elicited from different genres using different cutoff values. Despite the positive findings of the current study the findings of the study should be interpreted meticulously due to the small sample size and the limited ecological validity of the study.

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Conversation Discourse Stroke survivors Fluent aphasia