A PILOT STUDY TO DEVELOP DISCOURSE CODES SPECIFIC TO PREFRONTAL DYSFUNCTION

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dc.contributor.advisorRatner, Nan B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorEshel, Inbalen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-10-09T05:18:56Z
dc.date.available2004-10-09T05:18:56Z
dc.date.issued2004-08-12en_US
dc.description.abstractThis pilot study developed a set of codes designed to capture the "nonaphasic" but characteristic discourse deficits that may be present following prefrontal cortex damage (PFCD). The codes were utilized based on narrative sample elicitation to investigate between-group differences in two study populations: patients with left, right, or bi-frontal PFCD and age and education-matched healthy comparison group participants. Narrative samples were coded on indices of content units, thematic units, story grammar features, and discourse errors, and analyzed using CLAN. Results of this study support the original deficit hypotheses. The coding schema demonstrated fair to good inter-rater reliability, stronger performances by the healthy comparison group across all four levels of analysis, and poorer performance overall on the retell phase than the tell phase. Qualitative analysis revealed relatively few discourse errors associated with the healthy comparison group, while various classic discourse errors were associated with the PFCD group.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1883
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Speech Pathologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprefrontal cortexen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednarrativeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddiscourseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcodesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledanalysisen_US
dc.titleA PILOT STUDY TO DEVELOP DISCOURSE CODES SPECIFIC TO PREFRONTAL DYSFUNCTIONen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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