Mikyong Kim

University of Rhode Island | URI · Department of Communicative Disorders

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine whether the lexical retrieval cascade treatment was effective in improving single word naming and discourse of two individuals diagnosed with the logopenic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia (lvPPA) when training was conducted using single word naming and discourse tasks, respectively. Metho...

Background & Objectives: Impairment in word production during spontaneous speech is considered to be one of the most distinguishable characteristics of aphasic speech production and has been shown to depend on the unique characteristics of each patient’s language and tasks. This study investigates whether aphasic patients with a wide range in fluen...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether training phonological reading using a bigraph-syllable pairing method (e.g. pa - /pae/) instead of grapheme-phoneme pairing (e.g. p - /p/, a - /ae/) resulted in improved reading of words with low imageability and paragraphs in an individual with deep alexia. In the treatment, Friedman and Lott's bigr...

Research has shown that some individuals with aphasia have more difficulty naming verbs than nouns (e.g., R. Bastiaanse & R. Jonkers, 1998). Furthermore, verb retrieval failure may lead to sentence construction deficits in some aphasic individuals (e.g., J. Marshall, T. Pring, & S. Chiat, 1998). Given the pivotal role that a verb plays in a sentenc...

This study examined the nature of verb deficits in 14 individuals with probable Alzheimer's Disease (PrAD) and nine with agrammatic aphasia. Production was tested, controlling both semantic and syntactic features of verbs, using noun and verb naming, sentence completion, and narrative tasks. Noun and verb comprehension and a grammaticality judgment...

BACKGROUND: Research has shown that individuals with probable Alzheimer's disease (PrAD) show impaired semantic knowledge of nouns. More specifically, while they demonstrate preserved superordinate category information, information regarding specific semantic attributes associated with subordinates appears to be disrupted. Results of some recent st...

This study examined the relationship between verb retrieval and verb-argument-structure properties in seven agrammatic aphasic patients using tasks requiring access to the verb's lexicon for both comprehension- and productionlike processes. Results showed intact comprehension of both nouns and verbs and noun naming, but impaired naming of verbs. Su...

The present study examined the composition of the early productive vocabulary of eight Korean- and eight English-learning children and the morpho-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of their caregivers' input in order to determine parallels between caregiver input and early lexical development. Vocabulary acquisition was followed usi...