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Communicative Competence In Persons With Aphasia: The Impact Of Executive Function, Judy Marie Mikola
Communicative Competence In Persons With Aphasia: The Impact Of Executive Function, Judy Marie Mikola
Wayne State University Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between executive function and performance on selected linguistic tasks in persons with aphasia secondary to left frontal lesions.
A group of 15 persons with aphasia (PWA) completed three communication board tasks of varying levels of complexity and structure. The subject's functional use of the picture/word communication board was tested during a Story Retelling task. In addition, the PWA's executive function skills were examined using six nonverbal tests. The PWA group performance scores were compared to that of the neurologically healthy control group.
Results demonstrated that the control group performed significantly …