Jacquie Kurland
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Disorders | School of Public Health and Health Sciences
2019-20 Scholars Project Title: A Measure of Interactional Satisfaction and Transactional Success in Aphasic Conversation
It is well known that people with aphasia, a language impairment secondary to left hemisphere stroke, communicate better than they talk. Unfortunately, there exist no psychometrically valid, clinically feasible instruments for measuring treatment-induced improvements in conversation, the most frequent communicative activity of daily life. This project seeks to develop a normed instrument that will fill this critical gap.