1. Using discourse measures to describe aphasia Alison Ferguson

2. Describing aphasic output Fluent ‘Empty speech’ Press of speech Phonemic paraphasias Neologisms Jargon Paragrammatism Non-Fluent Content > function words Effortful ‘telegraphic’ Agrammatism Information proportional to fluency

3. Why ‘measure’? Prognosis  Recovery  Response to treatment Activity Social Participation Impairment

4. Assessment Methods DecontextualisedContext manipulatedCONTEXT

5. Assessment Methods ElicitedNaturalSAMPLE

6. Assessment Methods word, phrase, clause discourseLEVEL OF LANGUAGE

7. Assessment Methods quantitativequalitativeDESCRIPTION

8. Basic discourse measures Field Informative- ness Quantity Duration (elapsed time min:sec) Total completed words Total utterances Total turns Mean turn length in words Quality Lexical diversity – TTR (# diff word roots, total main body words) Grammatical intricacy (average # clauses per utterance) Tenor Speaker roles, workload Collaboration Questions (#, %) Responses to questions (#, %) Interactive Repair (# Prompts, # Appeals for assistance) Mode How was language used? Efficiency Words/minute (complete & intelligible utterances) Utterances with Mazes (#, %) Abandoned Utterances (#, %) Channel Total Communication (describe)

9. Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts – V.8 (Miller, 2004)

10. Automatised analyses

11. Example of Automatised Analysis

12. Preliminary outcomes

13. Fluent vs Non-Fluent Grammatical Intricacy

14. Fluent vs Non-fluent Efficiency ( Complete & Intelligible Utterances per min)

15. Concurrent validity – TTR & communicative effectiveness

16. Basic discourse measures Field Informative- ness Quantity Duration (elapsed time min:sec) Total completed words Total utterances Total turns Mean turn length in words Quality Lexical diversity – TTR (# diff word roots, total main body words) Grammatical intricacy (average # clauses per utterance) Tenor Speaker roles, workload Collaboration Questions (#, %) Responses to questions (#, %) Interactive Repair (# Prompts, # Appeals for assistance) Mode How was language used? Efficiency CIU/minute (complete & intelligible utterances per minute) Utterances with Mazes (#, %) Abandoned Utterances (#, %) Channel Total Communication (describe)