Our Prof. Louise Cummings wrote a blog article discussing her study that used several discourse production tasks to examine the cognitive-communication difficulties of adults with Long COVID. The results showed the impacts of COVID-related communication problems on the lives of these adults.
The findings revealed the cognitive-linguistics difficulties of immediate and delayed verbal recall, category fluency, and letter fluency had significantly poorer performance. In addition, the impacts on the lives and careers of adults of working age with Long COVID also need our attention.
The article is published on the European Association of Language Teachers for Healthcare website.