Genre, verb, and coherence in picture‐elicited discourse of adults with aphasiaFootnote

This study is part of a larger project supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, grant number 1 R03 DC005151, and the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dallas.

My sincere thanks to the dedicated participant volunteers and to the organisations that have referred participants to date: Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation; Callier (Dallas) Aphasia Group; Community Partners Program (a collaborative programme of the University of Texas at Dallas and Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation); Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services – Division for Determination Services; Friendship West Baptist Church; HealthSouth Dallas Medical Center; HealthSouth Plano Medical Center; Methodist Dallas Medical Center; Mobility Foundation Stroke Center, UT Southwestern Medical School; North Texas Stroke Survivors (Patrick Boland); Parkland Hospital and Healthcare System; South Dallas Communication Groups Program (UTD Center for Brain Health) with St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Jubilee United Methodist Church, St. Paul AME, and St. Luke’s “Community” UMC; The Stroke Center – Dallas; the University of North Texas Speech and Hearing Center Adult Communication Therapy Program; and the University of Texas at Dallas, Communication and Learning Center. I acknowledge Beverly Richardson Moshay for her conscientious approach to interviews with participants; Alison Lee, Brooke Long, and Gretchen Melpolder for their careful attention to data transcription; and Jessica Donnaway for her contributions to the reliability analyses.