Table 2.
Pre- and post-treatment scores for all administered tests/tasks
| Participant 1 | Participant 2 | Participant 3 | Participant 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pre-tx | post-tx | pre-tx | post-tx | pre-tx | post-tx | pre-tx | post-tx | |
| TESTS AND TASKS WITH INCLUSION CRITERIA |
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| Western Aphasia Battery (AQ) | 76.4 | 82.5 | 78.5 | 86.4 | 73.8 | 81.2 | 70.6 | 82.3 |
| Information | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| Fluency | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 8 |
| Comprehension | 8.6 | 8.15 | 9.35 | 9.9 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 9.85 |
| Repetition | 9.4 | 9.8 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 3.9 | 6.2 | 4.9 | 6.4 |
| Naming | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.9 |
| Northwestern Verb Productin Battery | ||||||||
| Sentence production without verb provided*(N = 22) |
22 (54.5%) |
19 (86.4%) |
13 (59.1%) |
18 (81.8%) |
16 (72.7%) |
19 (86.4%) |
22 (31.8%) |
22 (63.6%) |
| TESTS AND TASKS TO EVALUTE PRE-POST CHANGES |
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|
Boston Naming Test (N = 60) |
43 (71.7%) |
50 (83%) |
49 (81.7%) |
54 (90%) |
27 (45%) |
33 (55%) |
27 (45%) |
41 (68.3) |
|
NVPB (Single verbs) (N = 22) |
16 (72.7%) |
19 (86.4%) |
16 (72.7%) |
16 (72.7%) |
18 (81.8%) |
20 (90.9) |
11 (50.0%) |
13 (59.1%) |
tx: treatment
*
The Northwestern Verb Production Battery protocol requires showing and reading aloud the verbs for each sentence to be produced. However, the verbs were not seen or heard by the participants in this study during administration of the test in order to evaluate better noun and verb retrieval changes