Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test-Plus
It is an overview assessment that gives a broad perspective across relevant domains of cognition and language.
The CLQT+ assesses attention, memory, executive functions, language, and visuospatial skills.
Includes an aphasia administration path.
Used for moderate-severe impairment
Completion time: 15-20 minutes
(Helm-Estabrooks, 2001)
Boston Naming Test
Completion time: 35-45 minutes
Confrontation naming task with 61 pictures
The communication effectiveness index is made to assess the effectiveness of communication. It assesses for clarity, accuracy, relevance, engagement, and feedback.
A checklist is given to the caregivers to complete that describes the PWA's ability to communicate in 16 different situations.
Western Aphasia Battery-Revised
The WAB-R identifies and classifies 8 aphasia types. These include: Global, Broca's, Isolation, Transcortical Motor, Wernicke's, Transcortical Sensory, Conduction, Anomic.
It assesses linguistic skills most frequently affected by aphasia: Content, fluency, auditory comprehension, repetition, naming, reading, and writing
(Kertesz, 2007)
Communication Activities of Daily Living, Second Edition
It assesses the functional communication skills
For adults with neurogenic communication disorders.
Administration time: 30 minutes
Contains 50 test items that assess communication activities in seven areas: Reading, writing, and using numbers; Social interaction; Divergent communication; Contextual communication; Nonverbal communication; Sequential relationships; and Humor/metaphor/absurdity.
Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination-Third Edition
Completion time: 35 to 45 minutes
Helps clinician obtain an aphasia profile.
Assesses conversation, narrative speech, auditory comprehension, verbal expression, repetition, reading, and writing.
(Goodglass & Kaplan, 2000)
Boston Assessment of Severe Aphasia
Given to post stroke cases soon after the onset of symptoms, preferably at bedside.
Probes the spared language abilities of persons with severe aphasia and provides diagnostic information needed for immediate treatment.
A 61 item test that measures a wide variety of tasks, including auditory comprehension, bucco-facial or limb praxis, gesture recognition, oral and gestural expression, reading comprehension, writing, and visual-spatial tasks.
Both gestural and verbal responses to the items are scored.
(Helm-Estabrooks et al., 1989)