Discourse Comprehension Test Performance of Elders With Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

Spoken language comprehension, including comprehension for inferential material in narrative discourse, is diminished in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). There are, however, no empirical data concerning comprehension by adults with DAT of main ideas versus details in narratives. Evidence from o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of speech, language, and hearing research language, and hearing research, 2002-12, Vol.45 (6), p.1175-1187
Hauptverfasser:	Welland, Richard J, Lubinski, Rosemary, Higginbotham, D. Jeffery
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Aged, 80 and over Aging (Individuals) Alzheimer Disease - complications Alzheimer's disease Analysis of Variance Brain Caregivers Cognition & reasoning Cognition Disorders - diagnosis Cognition Disorders - epidemiology Cognition Disorders - etiology Communication Communication (Thought Transfer) Communicative disorders Comprehension Dementia Discourse Elderly people Expressive Language Female Health aspects Humans Language Skills Male Memory Memory Disorders - diagnosis Memory Disorders - etiology Mental representation Middle Aged Narratives Neurological Impairments Neuropsychological Tests Older Adults Older people Oral Language Psychological aspects Random Allocation Reading Comprehension Severity of Illness Index Short Term Memory Speech Discrimination Tests Speech Perception Tests Videotape Recording Word Recognition
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