What is it about?

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can significantly impact communication, yet research on recovery beyond one year post-injury is limited. This study uses quantitative and qualitative measures to explore how individuals with severe TBI experience changes in recounting important events up to two years post-injury.

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Why is it important?

While previous research focusses on early recovery, this paper provides new insights into communication changes up to two years post-injury, highlighting key areas to focus on for ongoing recovery. Using important event recounts can be a useful method to measure recovery, and can be combined with computerised analysis.

Perspectives

Working on this paper with my co-authors was incredibly rewarding as it provided me with an opportunity to delve into a relatively under-researched area of TBI recovery and using a novel computerized analysis that may improve how we assess and support long term communication recovery. Recounting about important life events are deeply personal as it shapes our identities and relationships. I hope that this paper highlights the need to support how individuals with severe TBI communicate these meaningful experiences.

Erica Zhang
University of Sydney

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This page is a summary of: Insights From Important Event Recounts Told by People With Traumatic Brain Injury, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, August 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2024_jslhr-23-00595.
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