Table 2.
Post Hoc Analysis of Speech and Language Performance
| NFPA
Mean (sd) (N = 11) |
SD
Mean (sd) (N = 10) |
LPA
Mean (sd) (N = 10) |
Controls
Mean (sd) (N = 10) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speech and language production (maximum) | ||||
| Speech fluency on WAB (10) | 5.4 (3.1)a | 8.9 (0.6)b | 8.0 (1.5)a | 10 (0) |
| Apraxia of speech rating | 3.4 (2.6)c | 0 (0) | 1.7 (1.8) | NA |
| Dysarthria rating (7 = max deficit) | 2.7 (2.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | NA |
| WAB repetition (100) | 64.5 (36)a | 85.3 (11) | 71.6 (18)a | 99.5 (0.9) |
| Phonemic fluency (from screening) | 6.6 (4.3)a | 6.4 (3.0)a | 7.5 (3.8)a | 16.6 (6.8) |
| Semantic fluency (from screening) | 10.1 (4.3)a | 4.3 (3.4)a,b | 8.0 (4.1)a | 21.2 (3.6) |
| Lexical retrieval and semantic memory: | ||||
| WAB word recognition Total (60): | 60 (0) | 48.8 (12)a,b,c | 58.5 (1.6) | 6.0 (0) |
| Single categories (6) | ||||
| Real objects | 6.0 (0) | 4.6 (1,6)a,b,c | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Drawn objects | 6.0 (0) | 4.9 (1,8) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Shapes | 6.0 (0) | 3.3 (2.1)a,b,c | 5.9 (0.3) | 6.0 (0) |
| Letters | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Numbers | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Colors | 6.0 (0) | 5.6 (0.7) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Furniture | 6.0 (0) | 5.2 (1.4) | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Body parts | 6.0 (0) | 4.9 (1.3)a,b,c | 6.0 (0) | 6.0 (0) |
| Fingers | 6.0 (0) | 4.0 (2.1)a,b | 5.2 (0.7) | 6.0 (0) |
| Left and right | 6.0 (0) | 4.2 (2)a,b | 5.4 (1.4) | 6.0 (0) |
| Boston Naming Test (60) | 50 (5.7)c | 10 (4.5)a,b | 30 (13)b | NA |
| Recognized items (% of unnamed) | 94% (17) | 23% (21)a,b | 73% (41) | NA |
| Total Pyramids/Palm Trees (52) | 49.5 (2.1) | 35.3 (8.1)a,b,c | 46.8 (2.8) | 51.8 (0.4) |
| Syntactic comprehension | ||||
| WAB sequential commands (80) | 69 (10) | 73 (8.6) | 59.4 (21)a | 80 (0) |
| CYCLE (2 = simplest, 9 = most complex) | ||||
| Total (55) | 49.5 (4) | 51 (5.1)c | 38 (13)a | 53.8 (0.9) |
| Cycle 2, 3 (10) | 10 (0) | 9.7 (0.7) | 9.4 (0.8) | 10 (0) |
| Cycle 4 (15) | 14.4 (0.7)c | 14.1 (1.2)c | 9.9 (4)a | 15 (0) |
| Cycle 5, 7 (10) | 9.2 (0.8)c | 9.6 (1)c | 5.3 (3.5)a | 10 (0) |
| Cycle 8 (10) | 9.0 (1,2)c | 9.7 (0.5)c | 6 (2.7)a | 9.7 (0.4) |
| Cycle 9 (10) | 7 (2.2)a,c | 8.7 (1.2)b,c | 4.7 (2.2)a | 9 (1) |
a
p < 0.05 vs controls.
b
p < 0.05 vs NFPAs.
c
p < 0.05 vs LPAs.
NFPA = nonfluent progressive aphasia; SD = sematic dementia; LPA = logopenic progressive aphasia; sd = standard deviation; WAB = Western Aphasia Battery; NA = not applicable; CYCLE = Curtiss–Yamada Comprehensive Language Evaluation–Receptive.