title: Aphasia and text writing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Good writing skills are needed in almost every aspect of life today, and there is a growing interest in research into acquired writing difficulties. Most of the findings reported so far, however, are based on words produced in isolation. The present study deals with the production of entire texts.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim was to characterize written narratives produced by a group of participants with aphasia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eight persons aged 28-63 years with aphasia took part in the study. They were compared with a reference group consisting of ten participants aged 21-30 years. All participants were asked to write a personal narrative titled 'I have never been so afraid' and to perform a picture-based story-generation task called the 'Frog Story'. The texts were written on a computer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The group could be divided into participants with low, moderate, and high general performance, respectively. The texts written by the participants in the group with moderate and high writing performance had comparatively good narrative structure despite indications of difficulties on other linguistic levels.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Aphasia appeared to influence text writing on different linguistic levels. The impact on overall structure and coherence was in line with earlier findings from the analysis of spoken and written discourse and the implication of this is that the written modality should also be included in language rehabilitation.
authors: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Division of Speech and Language Pathology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. ingrid.behrns@neuro.gu.se
authors: Ingrid
authors: I
authors: Behrns
authors: Elisabeth
authors: E
authors: Ahlsén
authors: Asa
authors: A
authors: Wengelin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D033262:Narration; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary; D014956:Writing; D055815:Young Adult