TBIBank English Togher Protocol Corpus

Leanne Togher Communication Sciences and Disorders The University of Sydney leanne.togher@sydney.edu.au

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Project-related materials folder

• demographics.xlsx: an Excel spreadsheet summary of demographic information about the participants.
• Tests: a folder with information about the test batteries used in the study.
• Summary: a folder with a Word file or Excel spreadsheet for each individual with a summary of test scores from the 3-month, 6-month, 9-month, 12-month, and 24-month post-onset visits.
• Overview: a folder with a Word file checklist for each individual showing which tests and tasks were administered at each visit (3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 2 years, and 3 years post-onset) throughout the course of the study.
• MissingData.docx: a Word file summary of missing data.

Citation information

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference.

Elbourn, E., Kenny, B., Power, E., & Togher, L. (2019). Psychosocial outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury in relation to discourse recovery: A longitudinal study up to 1 year post-injury. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 28(4), 1463-1478. doi:10.1044/2019_AJSLP-18-0204

Steel, J., Ferguson, A., Spencer, E., & Togher, L. (2017). Language and cognitive communication disorder during post-traumatic amnesia: Profiles of recovery after TBI from three cases. Brain Injury, 31(13-14), 1889-1902.

Stubbs, E., Togher, L., Kenny, B., Fromm, D., Forbes, M., MacWhinney, B., ... & Power, E. (2018). Procedural discourse performance in adults with severe traumatic brain injury at 3 and 6 months post injury. Brain injury, 32(2), 167-181.

Togher, L., Elbourn, E., Kenny, B., Power, E., McDonald, S., Tate, R., ... & MacWhinney, B. (2014). TBIBank is a feasible assessment protocol to evaluate the cognitive communication skills of with people with severe TBI during the subacute stage of recovery. Brain Injury, 28(5-6), 723-723.

Tran, S., Kenny, B., Power, E., Tate, R., McDonald, S., Heard, R., & Togher, L. (2017). Cognitive-communication and psychosocial functioning 12 months after severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 31(6-7), 747-748.

Project Description

This is a longitudinal project investigating communication recovery following severe TBI. Participants were recruited as an inception cohort and followed up over 2 years. Visits occurred at 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, and 2 years post-injury.

The Discourse Protocol included the following discourse tasks: