Broca's Aphasia Assessment and Treatment

Name the standardized assessment that provides a comprehensive understanding of the client’s overall language skills

• Western Aphasia Battery-Revised

• Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test- Plus

• Receptive One Word Vocabulary Test

• The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT)

What do the WAB-R subtests evaluate?

• Attention, auditory comprehension, repetition, memory

• Spontaneous speech, auditory comprehension, repetition, naming/word finding

• Memory, spontaneous speech, repetition,

• Naming/word finding, attention, memory, repetition

What are the three types of cues during the Object Naming subtest of the Naming/Word finding test?

• Tactile, verbal, visual

• Tactile, verbal, gestural 

• Gestural, phonemic, semantic

• Phonemic, tactile, semantic

What population does the WAB-R target?

• High school students 

• Adults with severe dementia

• Adults with suspected aphasia, TBI, or dementia

• Young adults with autism

How long does it take to give the WAB-R?

• 45 minutes

• 1 hour

• 20-30 minutes

• 1.5-2 hours

What does the PACE stand for?

• People with Aphasia Communicating Effortfully

• Program for Aphasics' Communication Effectiveness

• Programming Aphasia Communication Efforts

• Promoting Aphasics’ Communicative Effectiveness

What domain of language does the PACE target?

• Fluency

• Reading

• Pragmatics

• Writing

What are the four main principles of the PACE?

• equal participation, new info, free choice of modalities, natural feedback

• natural feedback, expressive language, receptive language, pragmatics

• New info, equal participation, expressive language, critical feedback

• spontaneous speech, natural feedback, equal participation, pragmatics

This approach has a lot of current evidence behind it?

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

While there is not much current evidence behind this approach, it has been used for a very long time and was a building block for current approaches. Would you consider using this approach?

• yes

• no

• maybe

• depending on the case

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-1