Clinical assessment of pragmatic language impairment: A generalisability study of older people with Alzheimer's disease

An updated and conservative systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence on psychotic experiences in children and adults: on the pathway from proneness to persistence to dimensional expression across mental disorders

“…Have you ever known what another person was thinking even though that person wasn't speaking ? ' was excluded because non-verbal communication has this effect ; Hays et al 2004). Item coding is reported in the Supplementary Online Material.…”

Pragmatic Skills Used by Older Adults in Social Communication Health Care Contexts: Precursors to Health Literacy

“…In addition to factors associated with the provider's communication style, individuals with communication disorders may present multiple deficits including executive functioning, memory, and processing that may impede successful communication during health care encounters. These deficits may be characterized by decreased ability to sequence events to produce a cohesive narrative, memory deficits, and word retrieval deficits (Coelho, 2002;Hays, Niven, Godfrey, & Linscott, 2004). Such deficits can impact the patient's ability to accurately question, explain, clarify, understand, and inform during health care visits.…”

Social Competence Treatment After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial of Interactive Group Treatment Versus Noninteractive Treatment

“…The primary outcome measure was a summary score of the Profile of Pragmatic Impairment in 137 Communication (PPIC) [31,32], an objective, behavioral rating of social communication 138 impairments following TBI. The PPIC has been found to have excellent reliability, convergent 139 validity and discriminant validity in most scales.…”

“…The PPIC has been found to have excellent reliability, convergent 139 validity and discriminant validity in most scales. [33] The PPIC was rated by two blinded trained 140 evaluators (a speech-language pathologist and a social worker) using 10-minute video-recorded 141 conversations of study participants with an unfamiliar conversational partner(site employees 142 not involved in the study and blinded to intervention randomization) at each assessment point. Each PPIC rater assessed each conversational excerpt for this study independently and 147 remained blind to the scoring of the other PPIC rater.…”