Marina Ruiter

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Radboud University

This study investigated whether a Dutch and adapted version of Reduced Syntax Therapy (REST) could stimulate and automatise the production of ellipses in Dutch-speaking, chronically agrammatic speakers (N = 12). Ellipses are syntactic frames in which slots for grammatical morphology tend to be lacking (e.g., everybody inside). When elliptical style...

Background: A well-known test for measuring verbal adequacy (i.e., verbal effectiveness) in mildly impaired aphasic speakers is the Amsterdam-Nijmegen Everyday Language Test (ANELT; Blomert, Koster, & Kean, 19955. Blomert , L. , Ch , Koster and Kean , M-L. 1995. Amsterdam-Nijmegen Test voor Alledaagse Taalvaardigheid: Handleiding [Amsterdam-Nijm...

Background: The grammatical output of aphasic speakers is often quantitatively analysed in order to establish an effect of treatment. In many methods of quantitative analysis both the number of utterances produced and (their) length are calculated. The difficulty is that these parameters may show a trade-off effect (i.e., may be inversely proportio...

Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) benefits people with aphasia following stroke. Group level summary statistics from randomised controlled trials hinder exploration of highly complex SLT interventions and a clinically relevant heterogeneous population. Creating a database of individual participant data (IPD) for people with aphasia aims...

Background and Purpose The factors associated with recovery of language domains after stroke remain uncertain. We described recovery of overall-language-ability, auditory comprehension, naming, and functional-communication across participants’ age, sex, and aphasia chronicity in a large, multilingual, international aphasia dataset. Methods Individ...

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Previous research examining the factors that determine language choice and voluntary switching mainly involved early bilinguals. Here, using picture naming, we investigated language choice and switching in late Dutch–English bilinguals. We found that naming was overall slower in cued than in voluntary switching, but switch costs occurred in both ty...

Background For speakers with mild to moderate expressive aphasia the ultimate goal of aphasia therapy is to improve verbal functional communication, which may be assessed with the Amsterdam-Nijmegen Test for Everyday Language (ANELT; Blomert et al., 1995). The ANELT is based on a qualitative and transcription-less method of analysis: the scoring is...

Background and Objective: This study explored the feasibility and usefulness of a set of observer rated outcome measures for the joint verbal functional communication of people with dementia and their communication partners, in combination with a set of quantitative measures for the language ability of the person with dementia. We hypothesized that...

Background: People with language problems following stroke (aphasia) benefit from speech and language therapy. Optimising speech and language therapy for aphasia recovery is a research priority. Objectives: The objectives were to explore patterns and predictors of language and communication recovery, optimum speech and language therapy intervention...

Background Stroke rehabilitation interventions are routinely personalised to address individuals’ needs, goals and challenges based on evidence from aggregated randomised controlled trials (RCT) data and meta-syntheses. Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analyses may better inform the development of precision rehabilitation approaches, quantify...

Background: Collation of aphasia research data across settings, countries and study designs using big data principles will support analyses across different language modalities, levels of impairment, and therapy interventions in this heterogeneous population. Big data approaches in aphasia research may support vital analyses, which are unachievable...

Background and Purpose Optimizing speech and language therapy (SLT) regimens for maximal aphasia recovery is a clinical research priority. We examined associations between SLT intensity (hours/week), dosage (total hours), frequency (days/week), duration (weeks), delivery (face to face, computer supported, individual tailoring, and home practice), c...

Much research has been dedicated to the effects of bilingualism on executive control (EC). For bilinguals with aphasia , the interplay with EC is complex. In this systematic review, we synthesize research on this topic and provide an overview of the current state of the field. First, we examine the evidence for EC deficits in bilingual persons with...

Purpose: Speech and language pathology (SLP) for aphasia is a complex intervention delivered to a heterogeneous population within diverse settings. Simplistic descriptions of participants and interventions in research hinder replication, interpretation of results, guideline and research developments through secondary data analyses. This study aimed...

Purpose: Speech and language pathology (SLP) for aphasia is a complex intervention delivered to a heterogeneous population within diverse settings. Simplistic descriptions of participants and interventions in research hinder replication, interpretation of results, guideline and research developments through secondary data analyses. This study aimed...

Het is voor mensen met chronische Broca-afasie beter om te leren spreken in telegramstijl. In plaats van automatisch compelte zinnen te willen maken. SimpTell afasietherapie en TST kunnen hierbij helpen

Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) interventions for people with aphasia are complex-for example, interventions vary by delivery model (face-to-face, tele-rehabilitation), dynamic (group, 1-to-1) and provider. Therapists tailor the functional relevance and intervention difficulty to the individual's needs. Therapy regimes are planned at...

Delivering aphasia therapy via telecommunication may provide a means to deliver intensive therapy in a cost-effective way. Teletherapy, remotely-administered (language) treatment, may support the repetitive drill practices that people with chronic aphasia need to perform when learning to compensate for their lasting language difficulties. The use o...

Grammaticatrainer voo taalstimulering en aanpak van grammaticaproblemen Zowel voor leerlingen, leraren ate therapeuten heeft het meerwaarde ate Taal-en Spraaktech-nologie (TST) ingezet kan warden om de grammaticale ontwikkeling bij kinderen te screenen, te diagnosticeren en zo nodig te stimuleren. Te denken valt aan een 'grammaticatrainer' die

Binnen het Innovatieprogramma Revalidatie, een gezamenlijk initiatief van ZonMw en Revalidatie Nederland, zijn diverse projecten afgerond. In dit nummer van NTR beginnen we met een nieuwe rubriek waarin we bekendheid geven aan de resultaten van deze projecten. We hebben hierbij gekozen voor de projecten uit doelstelling 2. Dat zijn innovaties waarv...

Afasie van Broca IVIensen met afasie ervaren problemen bij het gebruik van hun moedertaal doordat zij een beschadiging aan hun taaibrein hebben opgelopen, bijvoorbeeld door een beroerte (CVA). Wie te maken krijgt met Broca-afasie (zie blok rechts) begrijpt relatief goed wat anderen zeggen, maar kan gedachten moeilijk onder woorden brengen. Praten i...

Ruiter, M. (2008). [Review of: S. Byng, J. Duchan, & C. Pound (Eds.), (2007). The Aphasia Therapy File: Volume 2. New York: Psychology Press], Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie, 2, 57-58.

Ruiter, M. (2010). [Review of: A.L. Weiss (Ed.), (2010). Perspectives on individual differences affecting therapeutic change in communication disorders. New York: Psychology Press], Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie, 5, 57-58.

In Nederland worden steeds meer apps ontwikkeld die de klinische diagnostiek en behandeling ondersteunen of de functionele communicatievaardigheden van mensen met communicatieve beperkingen beogen te optimaliseren. Apps passen in het huidige, digitale tijdperk, maar apps moeten net als niet-digitale behandelmethoden en ondersteunende communicatiemi...

Samenvatting Kennis over herstelprocessen na het doormaken van een hersenletsel kan een thera-peut helpen om de therapie meer doelgericht in te zetten en om interventies maximaal te laten aansluiten op natuurlijke herstelmechanismen van het brein (Cramer, 2008; Van Cranenburgh, 2009). Hiermee kan de functionele uitkomst op positieve wijze worden be...

In the Netherlands, more and more apps are being developed for people with communicative disabilities which seek to support the clinical diagnosis and treatment of communicative disabilities or aim to optimise their functional communication skills. Although apps for communicatively disabled users perfectly fit into the digital era, they should meet...

Abstract We explored the suitability of perceptual and acoustic outcome measures to prepare E-learning based Speech Therapy (EST) efficacy tests regarding speech intelligibility in dysarthric speakers. Eight speakers with stroke (n = 3), Parkinson's disease (n = 4) and traumatic brain injury (n = 1) participated in a 4 weeks EST trial. A repeated m...

Er is sprake van afasie als ten gevolge van hersenletsel problemen ontstaan in het gebruik van taal. Afasie heeft verschillende verschijningsvormen. Sommige mensen met afasie kunnen niet of nauwelijks spreken maar relatief wel goed lezen. Ze kunnen woorden wel herkennen op papier, maar niet meer in hun eigen hoofd ‘vinden’ om ze uit te spreken. Als...

For some years now, the Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union) has been active in promoting the development of human language technology (HLT) applications for speakers of Dutch with communicative disabilities. The reason is that HLT products and services may enable them to improve their communication skills and verbal autonomy. We sought to i...

Uit een studie van vijf jaar geleden bleek dat er bij mensen die moeite hebben met schriftelijk of mondeling communiceren in het Nederlands, veel behoefte bestond aan voorzieningen die werken met taal- en spraaktechnologie. Inmiddels zijn er enkele van die hulpmiddelen ontwikkeld. Maar de indruk bestond dat de mogelijkheden nog lang niet waren uitg...

In dit artikel worden de pilot resultaten gepresenteerd van een onderzoek naar de effecten van een compensatoire strategietraining voor chronische agrammatische afatici op de functionele communicatie. Binnen de Reduced Syntax Therapy (REST) leren agrammatische patiënten te compenseren voor hun linguïstische beperkingen. Ze worden gestimuleerd overm...

This paper describes a feasibility study into automatic recognition of Dutch dysarthric speech. Recognition experiments with speaker independent and speaker dependent models are compared, for tasks with different perplexities. The results show that speaker dependent speech recognition for dysarthric speakers is very well possible, even for higher p...