TBIBank English Togher Protocol Corpus

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

Participants:	58
Type of Study:	Longitudinal -- Communication Recovery After TBI
Location:	Australia
Media type:	video and audio
DOI:	doi:10.21415/T5R018

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.

Further data is available as detailed in the project description below. Please feel free to contact us if you can't find the data you're interested in accessing.

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:

Free Speech Samples -- Brain Injury Story and Recovery, Important Event

Picture Descriptions -- Broken Window, Refused Umbrella, Cat Rescue

Story Narrative -- Cinderella (or other Story)

Procedural Discourse -- Cheese and Vegemite sandwich

Conversation

The following assessments were administered in conjunction with the discourse protocol:

Western Aphasia Battery-Revised -- Aphasia Quotient subtests

Boston Naming Test, Second Edition, Short Form

Northwestern Verb Naming test

AphasiaBank Repetition test

Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning Skills

LaTrobe Communication Questionnaire -- self and other

Sydney Psychosocial Reintegration Scale-2 Form A -- self and other

Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment-2

Apraxia Battery for Adults

Neuropsychological tests of attention, information processing speed, memory, and executive function