Functional approaches to TBI

Question 1

What are the main functional approaches to TBI?

Answer 1

• discourse analysis
• conversation analysis
• psychosocial

Question 2

What kind of disorder is TBI considered as?

Answer 2

• ‘cognitive-linguistic’ disorder
• communication is affected by cognitive impairments as much, or more so, than linguistic impairments

Question 3

How can TBI be considered from a linguistic perspective

Answer 3

• a pragmatic disorder
• rules governing how language is used, or rules governing socially appropriate talk/behaviour, are impaired

Question 4

What in TBI coms might highlight them as atypical?

Answer 4

• how they use language (and perhaps how they behave more generally)
• levels of linguistic ability (eg grammatical, lexical, phonological abilities) may be relatively intact