TABLE 5.
Statistical analyses of pre- and post-treatment language test data
| Language test subtest | Mean (SD) |
T score | Probability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | Post | |||
| Western Aphasia Battery | ||||
| Aphasia Quotient | 72.4(6.44) | 76.6(4.39) | − 2.762 | .040* |
| Fluency Score | 5(.52) | 5(.41) | − 1.000 | .363 |
| Auditory Comprehension Score | 8.33(1.08) | 8.96(.49) | − 2.094 | .090 |
| Repetition Score | 7.4(1.27) | 7.8(1.07) | − 2.740 | .041* |
| Naming Score | 7.65(.67) | 8.05(.67) | − 3.873 | .012** |
| Northwestern Verb Production Battery | ||||
| Comprehension | 95(7.29) | 97(2.42) | − 1.172 | .294 |
| Confrontation Naming | 65(19.41) | 72(13.26) | − .850 | .434 |
| Verb Usage in Sentence Production | 87(5.00) | 95(4.76) | − 3.911 | .011** |
| % Correct Obligatory One-place Verbs | 89(17.04) | 98(4.49) | − 1.746 | .141 |
| % Correct Obligatory Two-place Verbs | 78(13.91) | 98(4.49) | − 3.379 | .020** |
| % Correct Optional Two-place Verbs | 85(7.68) | 80(15.19) | .862 | .428 |
| % Correct Obligatory Three-place Verbs | 14(23.91) | 53(23.15) | − 3.766 | .013** |
| % Correct Optional Three-place Verbs | 50(24.60) | 61(31.06) | − .732 | .497 |
*
Significant at p < .05 level.
**
Significant at p < .02 level.