Affiliation:
1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Abstract
Abstract
Speech-language pathologists routinely use picture description
tasks to assess expository discourse in clients with disorders such as aphasia
and dementia. One picture description task – the Cookie Theft picture from the
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination – has come to dominate clinical settings
more than any other task. In this article, I examine why this particular picture
description task has proven to be so successful in assessing expository
discourse in clients with language and cognitive disorders. Using data from the
University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer and Related Dementias Study, recurrent
cognitive-linguistic impairments in the Cookie Theft picture descriptions of
clients with Alzheimer’s dementia are explored. These impairments are mostly
pragmatic in nature. It is argued that the sensitivity of the Cookie Theft
picture description task to these impairments makes it an ideal assessment tool
for any investigation which aims to identify pragmatic markers of
neurodegenerative diseases such as the dementias.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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