Dementia, CCD, Aphasia and PPA

What characterises the PPA Logopenic subtype (PPA-L)?

Problems with:

• Word-finding difficulties

What characterises the PPA Semantic subtype (PPA-S)?

Problems with

• Recognising and naming familiar objects, people or places

What characterises the Agrammatic/non-fluent PPA (PPA-G)?

Problems with:

• Grammar

• Motor speech difficulties

What are 3 factors that can influence recovery from CCD?

1. PTA

2. Years of education that a person has had

3. Aphasia

What 3 measures can you use to assess the initial severity of TBI?

1. Loss of consciousness (LOS)

2. Glasgow Coma Scale (GSC)

3. Post-Traumatic Amnesia (PTA)

What are the 4 components of Grice's Maxims?

1. Relevance

2. Quantity

3. Quality

4. Manner

What are the 3 subtypes of CCD?

• Confused

• Impoverished

• Verbose

What is the FAVRES Assessment?

Reflective of functioning in the real world -> involves cognitive/executive functioning tasks

• Getting facts

• Eliminating irrelevant information

• Weight facts

• Being flexible when new info arises

• Generate alternatives

• Predict consequences

• Provide rationales

What self-rating scale can you give to a person with PPA?

Communication Confidence Rating Scale for Aphasia (CCRSA)

What is an alternative to the LaTrobe Questionnaire for self-awareness?

Self-Awareness of Deficits Interview (SADI)

What is the Communication Participation Item Bank (CPIB)?

- Looking at whether the condition interferes communication

- Alternative to La Trobe Communication Questionnaire for RHD

What is the Progressive Aphasia Severity Scale (PASS)?

Outcome measure for tracking progression of PPA symptoms

How many items are in the short version of the BNT? (Graviotto et al., 2022)

12 -> suitable for PPA

What is the Assessment for Living with Aphasia (ALA)

QoL screener for people with aphasia

What is the Communication Activities of Daily Living (CADL-3)?

Assesses functional communication skills of adults with neurogenic communication disorders

What is the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)?

Cognition screener -> memory, attention, orientation, language

What is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)

An assessment to detect mild cognitive impairment (good for detecting early stages of dementia, if concerned about PPA)

What is the SYDBAT?

Assessment battery for PPA

• Differentiates PPA variants

• Assessing naming, repetition, comprehension, semantic knowledge

What is the RICE (RIC Evaluation in RHD) assessment?

Assesses pragmatics, visual scanning, writing, metaphorical language

What is the RHD Bank Protocol monologue tasks?

• Cookie theft picture

• Cat in a tree story

• Cinderella recount

• Cheese & vegemite sandwich

• Unfamiliar object task

What is the CLQT (Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test)?

Assesses:

• Screens cognitive and linguistic strengths and weaknesses

• Severity of neglect

Includes clock drawing

What are the Adapted Kagan Scales?

Rates conversation skills when conversing with a communication partner, post-TBI

What is the SCATBI (Scales of Cognitive Ability for Traumatic Brain Injury)?

Assesses cognitive-linguistic skills including:

• Orientation

• Ability to organise information

• Short-term memory

• Reasoning

• Visual & auditory processing

What is the Western Aphasia Battery Revised (WAB-R)

Assessment battery for people with acquired neurological disorders (more suitable for diagnosis aphasia in STROKE victims!)

Includes:

• Spontaneous speech

• Auditory comprehension

• Repetition, naming

• Reading, writing

What is the TBIBank Protocol?

Includes:

• Monologic discourse tasks

• 10 min conversation

• Additional sample with conversational partners

What is The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT)

Assesses

• Theory of mind

• Social cognition

• Emotional perception

by asking the person to make inferences based off videos of everyday conversations of actors

Comes in short form too!

What is the PCAD (Profiling the Communication Abilities of People with Dementia)?

Assesses:

• Communication of people with dementia

• Provides strategies for communication partners

What is the FLCI-2 (Functional Linguistic Communication Inventory)?

Suitable for evaluating functional communication of people with dementia

What is the Traumatic Brain Injury Quality of Life (TBI-QOL)

Assesses

• QoL

• Symptom interference

What is the QOLIBRI (Quality of Life in Brain Injury)?

10 minute scale for people after having brain injury, inspects:

• Cognition

• Daily living

• Autonomy

• Social relationships

• Emotional & physical wellbeing

What is the MCLA (Measure of Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities)?

Provides comprehensive battery, links between cognitive deficits and communication

What is the LCQ (LaTrobe Communication Questionnaire)?

Gives perceived communication ability (conversational effectiveness, social communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, and pragmatic difficulties)

Also provides communication partner perspective

What is the Measure of Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities - Communication Functioning Intake (MCLA-CFI)?

Assesses:

• Communication functioning

• Medical/social background

• Current concerns

• Functional impact

Informs goal-setting, good for case history