This paper describes the changes in communication skills, knowledge and confidence in Speech Language Therapy (SLT) students in conversations with People With Aphasia (PWA) after Training Con-tAct, a Dutch Communication Partner Training. Methods: On a voluntary basis, nine SLT students (2nd yr) completed …

Inleiding Afasie is een verworven taalstoornis ten gevolge van plotseling optredend hersenletsel dat is ontstaan nadat de taal verworven is. Afasie bemoeilijkt de communicatie tussen de patiënt en de zorgprofessional. De aanwezigheid van de afasie verstoort de productiviteit én effectiviteit van de zorg. …

Background: Lexical access problems of inflected verbs are common in aphasia. Previous research addressed these problems either in purely linguistic terms (e.g., verb movement) or in terms of lexical characteristics (e.g., frequency). We propose a new measure of verb complexity, which combines linguistic …