BURNS BRIEF INVENTORY- RCVA
Scanning and Tracking- Visuo-Spatial Skills- Prosody and Abstract Language
This test compares individual emotion processing relative to normal populations. Here are the twelve subtests and what they aim to accomplish:
Ekman 3-Faces Task– Looking at patient’s ability to recognize faces
Identity Matching– Matching faces by identity
Affect Matching– Matching faces by different affective states
Affect Discrimination– Determining what a state is based on presentation of stimuli
Affect Naming– Naming different affective states like happy, sad, etc.
Prosody Identification– Identifying different tones of voice
Prosody Naming– Naming different tones
Non-emotional Prosody Discrimination– Distinguishes words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently in different contexts
Emotional Prosody Discrimination– Distinguishing between how different emotions sound
Match Emotional Prosody to Face– Match tone of voice to facial expression
Match Emotional Face to Prosody– Matching facial emotions to tone of voice
Conflicting Facial Emotion/Prosody (Respond to Face/Respond to Prosody)– Exposure to conflicting emotions and facial expressions, e.g. sarcasm
This test was designed to evaluate patients with mild unilateral spatial neglect who experience visual scanning and tracking problems. The test includes two scanning tasks, Single Stimuli and Double Stimuli. Single Stimuli features a single letter at the top of a page and a patient is asked to find it in the lines below. The Double Stimuli is the same test but with two letters at the top of the page.
The Rehabilitation Institute Chicago Evaluation of Communication Problems in Right Hemisphere Dysfunction (RICE – 3) consists of several different components and uses a points system rather than comparison to normal. It’s assumed a normal adult would complete all tests without error. The subtests also do not need to be used together, and should be selected based on your initial assessment of the patient.
Begin the RICE-3 with a conversation about a subject of interest and observe the patient. Once the sample of communication and discourse is taken, you can rate the patient on the Pragmatic Communication Scale components, including:
Intonation
Facial expression
Eye contact
Gestures and proxemics
Conversational initiations
Conversational turn taking
Topic maintenance/adherence
Response length
Presupposition
Referencing
Assess attention, memory, executive functions, language, and visuospatial skills.
Monitor intervals in recovery, assess driving readiness, measure language competency, and for research of adults with multiple types of neurological impact.
Clearer interpretation for people with aphasia.
Use for patients of all severity levels.
Effective tool for English or Spanish-speaking adults with known or suspected neurological impairment as a result of stroke, traumatic brain injury, or dementia.
CLQT+ offers two standard administration paths: Traditional Administration and Aphasia Administration.
Clearer interpretation for people with aphasia; one new semantic comprehension task and scoring for several elements within the current tasks.
Original CLQT: one pilot (n=13) and three studies (n=92, 154, and 119, respectively) established the reliability and validity of the CLQT.
Aphasia sample (CLQT+): one clinical study including 76 individuals diagnosed with aphasia associated with left hemisphere strokes were given the revised version of the CLQT.