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The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination provides a comprehensive exploration of a range of communicative abilities. Its results are used to classify patient's language profiles into one of the localization based classifications of aphasia: Broca's, Wernicke's, anomic, conduction, transcortical, transcortical motor, transcortical sensory, and global aphasia syndromes, although the test does ...
The WAB–R is a battery of 8 subtests (32 short tasks). It maintains the structure, content, and clinical value of the earlier test. Additions: [1] Two supplementary tasks (reading and writing irregular verbs and non-words) to aid the clinician in distinguishing surface, deep (phonological), and visual dyslexia.
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The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disorder. [1]
The test contains a cognitive screening, a language battery and a disability questionnaire. The authors of the comprehensive aphasia test take account of current linguistic and psychological theory and other variable that impact aphasic performance. The CAT was published in 2005 and was the first new aphasia test in English for 20 years.
Trained interviewers administered the test at the end of a face-to-face private interview in an examination center and two interviewers independently scored the test. An extensive analysis of these data has been published. [10] Scores (mean, 25th percentile, 75th percentile) declined with age: 60-69y: 57, 46, 68; 70-79y: 48, 38, 68; 80+y: 40 ...
For example, using reading tests in patients with aphasia. Examples of hold tests used: National Adult Reading Test (NART) [1] North American Adult Reading Test (NAART) [1] Picture Completion subtest of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale [3] Similarities subtest of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale [3] Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR) [1]
Cross-battery assessment (XBA) is the process by which psychologists use information from a number of test batteries to help guide diagnostic decisions and to gain a fuller picture of an individual's cognitive abilities than can be ascertained through single-battery assessments.