Comparing connected language elicitation procedures in persons with aphasia: Concurrent validation of the Story Retell Procedure

Connected language elicitation procedures used to describe and quantify language vary among the many sampling techniques; however, few studies have compared sampling procedures within the same study participants. This study sought to compare the Story Retell Procedure (SRP) to six additional sampling procedures quantifying eight verbal productivity, three verbal disruption, and two syntactic measures. Results from thirteen individuals with aphasia revealed substantial inter-subject variability with high correlation coefficients between the SRP and other language elicitation tasks for the majority of the linguistic measures. The SRP produced either no difference across tasks or significantly greater instances of the dependent variable

A comparison of elicitation procedures for connected language analyses in person with aphasia:Concurrent validation of the Story Retell Procedure

Among the elicited and observed procedures used to describe, classify, diagnose, measure change, quantify severity, and plan intervention for persons with aphasia, the measurement of connected spoken language has become a stable and valued procedure for many of these purposes. Although recognized, the most valid, reliable, and efficient methods for sampling connected language has received relatively little experimental attention from clinical and experimental aphasiologists. The recently developed Story Retell Procedure (SRP) (Doyle, et al, 2000) has the unique measurement advantage of predetermined targets for the retold stories; however, it relies on the comprehension as well as the production of the individual for the samples from which linguistic measurements are performed. Its concurrent validation has not been established