A Practical Guide to Translating Scientific Publications Into Aphasia-Friendly Summaries DOI
Anna Kasdan, Deborah F. Levy, Isaac Pedisich

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Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 9

Published: April 4, 2025

Purpose: Research in aphasiology is largely not accessible. Almost none of the articles published field's rich, over 150-year history are communicated a way that understandable to those who could benefit from them most—individuals with aphasia and their loved ones. In this tutorial, we detail how researchers any field can create aphasia-friendly research summaries scientific publications. This step-by-step guide eight simple parts covers principles written communication (e.g., use plain language supportive icons images) makes freely available resources. We also introduce prototype tool—Article Friend—that automatically generates abstracts jump-start process for researchers; preliminary tool serves as proof concept creating accessible be an efficient, sustainable practice publishing landscape. Conclusions: The tutorial provides specific tools examples effectively easily Principles our extend beyond apply consumers affected by other cognitive disorders, such developmental disorder, dementia, traumatic brain injury. Making patient stakeholders ones empower access understand they have contributed to, ultimately furthering increased community engagement interchange between researchers, clinicians, aphasia, policymakers. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.28590227

Language: Английский

Construct Validation of the Verb Naming Test for Aphasia DOI
Marianne Casilio, Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Sun‐Joo Cho

et al.

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: March 31, 2025

Purpose: Although there is widespread agreement pertaining to the cognitive processes underlying spoken word production, more generally in aphasia, multiple competing accounts exist regarding involved for verb specifically. Some have speculated that suboptimal control of certain item properties (e.g., imageability) may be partially responsible conflicting reports literature, yet remains a dearth research on psychometric validation production tests aphasia. The purpose present study was investigate constructs Verb Naming Test (VNT), relatively commonly used test, by expanding upon an response theory (IRT) modeling framework we previously described. Method: Using archival data set 107 individuals with specified series IRT models whether covariates (argument structure, imageability), person (aphasia subtype, severity), and their interactions were predictive VNT patterns. Results: Across all models, most strongly associated lexical-semantic processing (imageability, aphasia severity) significant predictors. In contrast, morphosyntactic subtype) minimally predictive. Conclusions: patterns appear primarily explained representing processing. particular, identified important role imageability, covariate not controlled VNT's design, which both aligns body prior further illustrates challenge differentiating from lexical semantic during production. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.28664669

Language: Английский

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A Practical Guide to Translating Scientific Publications Into Aphasia-Friendly Summaries DOI
Anna Kasdan, Deborah F. Levy, Isaac Pedisich

et al.

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 9

Published: April 4, 2025

Purpose: Research in aphasiology is largely not accessible. Almost none of the articles published field's rich, over 150-year history are communicated a way that understandable to those who could benefit from them most—individuals with aphasia and their loved ones. In this tutorial, we detail how researchers any field can create aphasia-friendly research summaries scientific publications. This step-by-step guide eight simple parts covers principles written communication (e.g., use plain language supportive icons images) makes freely available resources. We also introduce prototype tool—Article Friend—that automatically generates abstracts jump-start process for researchers; preliminary tool serves as proof concept creating accessible be an efficient, sustainable practice publishing landscape. Conclusions: The tutorial provides specific tools examples effectively easily Principles our extend beyond apply consumers affected by other cognitive disorders, such developmental disorder, dementia, traumatic brain injury. Making patient stakeholders ones empower access understand they have contributed to, ultimately furthering increased community engagement interchange between researchers, clinicians, aphasia, policymakers. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.28590227

Language: Английский

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