Aphasia Test 2- Assessment, Therapy and Theories

Data Collection: Traditional Assessment

Standard general language test- Collects normative data for each modality - General Comprehensive Assessments
Special test- used if the comprehensive test didn't capture something. mild impairment

special test: revised token test

used for auditory comprehension

special test: Reading comprehension battery for aphasia

gets at the small differences in reading the comprehensive test missed

special test: Boston Naming Test and Phylidephia Naming Test

word recall testing. words that get harder

Special test: Word Fluency Measure

asking to say as many words (specific category) as you can in the next minute

Special Test: Discourse Sampling and Analyses

Word productivity: number of productive words with meaning and pauses

General Comprehensive Assessment (impairment based)

-Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
-Western Aphasia Battery
-Comprehensive Aphasia Test
-Aphasia Diagnostic Profile
-Quick Aphasia Battery

Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination

test reading, writing, verbal output and auditory comprehension. type and severity with a different profile

Western Aphasia Battery

determines the aphasia quotient severity of aphasia

Comprehensive Aphasia Test

Impairments, psychological and social impact of aphasia, creates a profile to guide treatment

Aphasia Diagnostic Profile

9 different profiles that determine the aphasia types and emotional state during testing

Quick Aphasia Battery

online aphasia test

Data Collection: Authentic Assessment

ASHA FACS, Functional Assesment of Communication Skills - Functional communication based on observations, Functional independence measure (comprehension and expression), Communicative abilities in daily living (measures functional task ie. using the phone)

Informal Assesment

Bridges the formal assessment with the treatment

Test of Cognition

-cognitive linguistic quick test, scales of cognitive and communicative ability for neurorehabilitation, colored progressive matrices.
people with aphasia may have subtle cognitive deficits that contribute to language

biopsychosocial approach to therapy

therapy should take into account the biological impairment based factors and the psycholinguistic and cognitive processes of language and communication within the social context of he person with aphasia and his or her family. Not just the person with aphasia but the family as well

Impairment-based therapy approach: schuells stimulation approach

general language deficits that crosses all language modalities. ex: following direction task, finish the sentence task, yes no questions

Impairment-based therapy approach: Localization

treat according to classification of the aphasia

Impairment-based therapy approach: Neurolinguistic or psycholinguistic

both a problem with accessing the language in the brain and something is wrong with the language system ex:training grammar

Impairment-based therapy approach: Cognitive Neuropsychological

components of language selectively impaired, not all components of language ex: explicit teaching-mapping

Participation-focused therapy: Pragmatic/Functional

Disability is going to affect social interactions, everyday communication activities. ex: partner training- tools to better communication

Participation focused therapy: Social

acknowledging environmental factors ex: aphasia groups