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Communication disorders and executive function impairment after severe traumatic brain injury: An exploratory study using the GALI (a grid for linguistic analysis of free conversational interchange) - 09/12/14

Doi : 10.1016/j.rehab.2014.08.011 
C. Sainson a, M. Barat b, , M. Aguert c
a 60, rue de l’Ormelet, 14790 Mouen, France 
b EA 4136 handicap et système nerveux, université de Bordeaux, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France 
c Psychologie des actions langagières et motrices (PALM, EA 4649), université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 14032 Caen cedex 5, France 

Corresponding author. Parc du centre, 9, rue Berthollet, 33160 Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, France.

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Abstract

Following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), failure to adjust language to communication abilities has been described and attributed by many authors to executive function impairment. Interactional dysfunctions may damage family-based, social and vocational equilibrium, and they are of key importance in prognosis of rehabilitation outcome. In conversation, frequently occurring inappropriate formulations connote difficulties in discursive organization and are likely to include numerous digressions, if not confabulations.

Objective

The main objective of this study was to improve assessment of the non-verbal as well as the verbal aspects of the communication disorders observed in TBI subjects. We have developed and are proposing the grid for linguistic analysis (GALI) of free conversational interchange that constitutes an original French-language tool. We wish to demonstrate its validity as a means of measuring interactive skills in a given population.

Method

We assessed 17 severely brain injured patients presenting executive dysfunction, who were compared with 34 matched and healthy individuals. Fifty-one 10-minute sequences of free conversation between study participants and therapists were filmed and analyzed by applying the GALI. Three independent raters coded the conversations. Inter-rater reproducibility was considered statistically satisfactory.

Results

The results successfully distinguished TBI patients from healthy subjects and thereby underscored the discriminatory value of the tool. A significant correlation was found between the patients’ performances in executive tests and in the GALI.

Conclusions

In severe TBI a social handicap results from several associated cognitive disorders. Interactive discourse analysis combining non-verbal with verbal aspects confirms the existence of difficulties in communication that are usually underestimated in classic formal language testing methods. The GALI is likely to meet speech therapists’ need for reliable assessment of their patients’ interactional difficulties and their consequences in social life.

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Résumé

Objectifs

Suite à un traumatisme crânien grave, d’importantes perturbations de l’utilisation du langage en contexte sont observées et attribuées par de nombreux auteurs au déficit exécutif. Ces dysfonctionnements interactionnels bouleversent de façon durable l’équilibre social et professionnel et tiennent une part importante dans le pronostic de réinsertion. L’objectif général de cette étude est l’amélioration de l’évaluation des troubles de la communication par l’élaboration d’un outil standardisé, en considérant un aspect systématiquement négligé qui est celui du domaine de la communication non verbale.

Méthode

Notre étude a porté sur la réalisation puis la validation d’une grille d’analyse linguistique d’interaction libre (GALI) auprès d’un corpus de 17 sujets traumatisés crâniens graves comparés à 34 sujets témoins appariés.

Résultats

Les résultats de cette étude ont permis de valider partiellement cette grille et notamment de vérifier ses qualités discriminantes. Cet outil d’évaluation a mis en évidence la présence constante, à des degrés variables, de déficits communicationnels verbaux et non verbaux. Par ailleurs, une corrélation significative a été retrouvée entre les performances des sujets aux tests exécutifs et à la GALI.

Conclusion

Chez les traumatisés crâniens graves, le handicap social est la résultante de désordres cognitifs intriqués. À ce titre, l’analyse du discours conversationnel dans ses composantes verbales et non verbales confirme les difficultés de communication sous estimées ou négligées par les tests de langage classiques qui n’ont pas été conçus dans un objectif d’analyse fonctionnelle de la communication. La GALI a été élaborée afin de répondre à un besoin orthophonique d’évaluation de ces perturbations conversationnelles et de leurs retentissements.

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Keywords : Traumatic brain injury, Communication, Gesture, Executive function impairment, Interlocutor

Mots clés : Traumatisme crânien, Communication, Gestualité, Syndrome dysexécutif, Pragmatique, Conversation


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