Publications by authors named "Valerie Coulombe"

In 1909, 21-year-old Bernadette was hospitalized after the parish priest deemed her to be suffering from "puerperal insanity." She was committed to Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, separated from her newborn and husband, who would send dozens of letters inquiring about her health and longing for the day she could return home. Sadly, that return never happened.

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Recent clinical reports have suggested a possible decline in the ability to understand emotions in speech (affective prosody comprehension) with aging. The present study aims to further examine the differences in performance between older and younger adults in terms of affective prosody comprehension. Following a recent cognitive model dividing affective prosody comprehension into perceptual and lexico-semantic components, a cognitive approach targeting these components was adopted.

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Background: Individuals with affective-prosodic deficits have difficulty understanding or expressing emotions and attitudes through prosody. Affective prosody disorders can occur in multiple neurological conditions, but the limited knowledge about the clinical groups prone to deficits complicates their identification in clinical settings. Additionally, the nature of the disturbance underlying affective prosody disorder observed in different neurological conditions remains poorly understood.

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Asyntactic comprehension corresponds to a disorder in the comprehension of sentences, which is one of the difficulties that can arise in a context of aphasia following a stroke. To date, rehabilitation of asyntactic comprehension is divided into three main groups of approaches, centered on the structure of the sentence, on the memory or on the verb and its thematic roles. The present study aims to assess the effectiveness of the existing treatments to rehabilitate asyntactic comprehension in post-stroke aphasic individuals, in terms of post-treatment improvements, generalization, long-term maintenance and transfer effects to daily life activities.

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Assessing one's sentence production ability can help to identify difficulties experienced by individuals with aphasia and enables targeted intervention. Speech-language pathologists working with the francophone population must contend with the current lack of a sentence production evaluation tool. The aim of this article is to present the development, validation, and normative data of a French-language test used to evaluate the production of sentences: the BEPS (Batterie d'Évaluation de la Production Syntaxique).

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Background: Collaboration and partnership are key issues for modern health systems seeking to implement quality integrated care that meets the needs of the population. The -- (Connecting Community organisations-Institutions-Users, CCIU), involving community- and institution-based mental health workers, carers and users, is an innovative normative integrated care group (group for shared values, culture and vision) established by the Canadian Mental Health Association-Montreal Branch. A programme evaluation approach was used to conduct a logic analysis of the CCIU in order to understand the relationships between its resources, activities and outcomes, build a common understanding and, allow for its replication.

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