title: In-person versus telehealth assessment of discourse ability in adults with traumatic brain injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare in-person versus telehealth (TH) assessment of discourse ability in adults with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Repeated-measures design with random order of conditions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty adults with moderate-to-severe TBI.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants completed conversation, picture description, story-generation, and procedural description tasks. Sessions were video-recorded and transcribed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Measures of productivity and quality of discourse.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant differences between conditions were not detected in this sample, and feedback from participants was positive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These preliminary results support the use of TH for the assessment of discourse ability in adults with TBI, at least for individuals with sufficient cognitive skills to follow TH procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Lyn S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Turkstra
authors.forename: Maura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quinn-Padron
authors.forename: Jacqueline E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Marilyn S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Workinger
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Antoniotti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013060:Speech; D017216:Telemedicine; D055815:Young Adult