RHDBank Discourse Protocol Corpora -- Controls
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Melissa Johnson
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Nazareth College
mjohnso2@naz.edu
The Brain Injury Clinic (BIC), the source of participants for this corpus, is housed in the York Wellness and Rehabilitation Institute at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. It is part of the Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) Department, within the School of Health and Human Services. The clinic has been operating since 1992, and has served hundreds of clients from the Greater Rochester community who have acquired brain injuries. Emphasizing a Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA), we engage clients in meaningful activities to reach their educational, vocational, and recreational potential. The BIC serves as a rich training site for graduate speech-language pathology students and as a research platform to study acquired cognitive-communication disorders.
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Jamila Minga
Communication Disorders
North Carolina Central University
jminga1@nccu.edu
The NCCU Speech and Hearing Clinic is a full-service accredited clinic. Services include speech-language and hearing evaluations and treatment to diverse populations of all ages. Services are provided through individual and in groups. The adult neurogenic sector of the clinic consists of the Neurogenic Aphasia Group (NAG), the Transgender Voice Clinic (TVC), and the Right Hemisphere Disorder Project (RHDP). Corpus participants were self-identified volunteers of the Right Brain Stroke Research Registry (RBSRR), a national registry and subset of the RHDP.
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Participants: | 11 control participants |
Type of Study: | various discourse tasks |
Location: | USA |
Media type: | video |
DOI: | doi:10.21415/T5GW24 |
In accordance with TalkBank rules, use of data from any of these RHDBank
corpora must be accompanied by this reference:
MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M. & Holland, A. (2011). AphasiaBank:
Methods for studying discourse. Aphasiology, 25,1286-1307.
Additional citations for individual corpora are available from the contributors’ list below.
Project Description
This corpus consists of movies and transcripts of participants who
are serving as controls for people with Right Hemisphere Disorder (RHD)
participating in the RHD protocol tasks
(https://talkbank.org/rhd/protocol/) in English. The language sample
is transcribed and linked line-by-line to the movie. The transcriptions
are in CHAT format, allowing the application of any of the CLAN language
analysis programs. Demographic and test result data are available from
those links at the RHDBank webpage.
Participants are assigned an ID such as nazareth01a. This indicates
the corpus (nazareth), the order in which they entered the study (01),
and if the protocol was administered multiple times (a = first time, b =
second time, etc.).
The RHDBank Discourse Protocol for Control Participants includes the following discourse tasks:
Free Speech Samples -- Illness/Injury Story and Coping
First Encounter Task
Picture Descriptions -- Cookie Theft, Cat Rescue
Story Narrative -- Cinderella
Procedural Discourse -- Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Question Production -- Unfamiliar Object Task
The Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (Helm-Estabrooks, 2001) is also administered in conjunction with the discourse protocol.
All discourse and testing materials are available from links at the RHDBank website.
Links to spreadsheets with participants' demographic data and test results are also available there.