Publications by authors named "Kieran J Flanagan"

: The suitability of existing speech-language pathology assessments for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) children is questioned in the literature. There is emerging evidence that the differences reported between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children on standardised assessment are diminished on more naturalistic assessments such as narrative production (macrostructure and microstructure). Little is documented, however, about the narrative comprehension skills of Australian children.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to explore how Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects the understanding of distinctive and nondistinctive semantic features using a simpler task.
  • Participants with AD showed significantly lower accuracy in recognizing distinctive features compared to age-matched controls, but their recognition of nondistinctive features remained unaffected.
  • The findings suggest that individuals with AD experience specific difficulties with distinct semantic content, even when cognitive demands are minimized.
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Objective: This is a preliminary investigation into the effectiveness of semantic feature training for the treatment of anomia in Alzheimer disease (AD).

Background: Anomia is a common clinical characteristic of AD. It is widely held that anomia in AD is caused by the combination of cognitive deficits and progressive loss of semantic feature information.

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A central topic of discussion in the exploration of semantic disturbance in Alzheimer's disease (AD) concerns the relative contribution of semantic content (e.g., semantic features) and semantic process.

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