Titlebook: Research in Clinical Pragmatics; Louise Cummings Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 Adult traumatic brain injury and cogn

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Disruption of Pragmatics in Adulthoodn overview of the main themes in the research into pragmatic disruption in people with aphasia, right hemisphere language disorder, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s dementia, non-Alzheimer dementia and Parkinson’s disease. These disorders are associated with particular patterns of

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Aphasiasypically localized to the left cerebral hemisphere. This chapter examines the pragmatic abilities of people who have aphasia. Component, perspectivist and functional views of pragmatics are each considered, for their influence on the operationalization of pragmatic ability in aphasia. The chapter ad

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Right-Hemisphere Pragmatic Disorderslude expression and comprehension of prosody, emotion, humor and non-literal language, as well as discourse production and theory of mind. These pragmatic processes are complex and are subserved by extensive neural networks which often include both right and left hemisphere regions. As a result, it

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Alzheimer’s Dementia the ability to access semantic information in the lexicon. This chapter examines socio-pragmatic processing in the context of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD). We consider (a) the characteristics of communication in dementia, (b) how cognitive limitations associated with AD interact with the ability to fu

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Non-Alzheimer Dementiaslinical features. Collectively, these disorders are often referred to as ‘non-Alzheimer’s dementias’ (non-AD dementias). Language impairments, at the single word and discourse levels, are becoming well documented in non-AD dementias and are recognized as having great impact on the use of language fo

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Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implantation Findings show that while improvements in spoken language outcomes for children and young people who use cochlear implants are evident, there are large individual differences in performance. Studies that investigate spoken language outcomes for children with hearing loss typically report results bas