Table 2.

Speech, language, and nonverbal semantic assessments

	Maximum score	2002	2003	2004
WAB Fluency	10	9*	9*	9*
WAB Information Content	10	9*	8*	6*
WAB Repetition	100	100	98*	97*
WAB Auditory Word Recognition	60	58*	50*	28*
Pyramids and Palm Trees (words)	52	43*	27*	NC
Pyramids and Palm Trees (pictures)	52	27*	22*	NC
Boston Naming Test	60	6*	3*	NC
Experimental Famous Face Battery (Gorno-Tempini et al., 2004b):
• Famous Face Naming	20	0*	NC	NC
• Famous Face Recognition	20	14*	NC	NC
• Famous Face Semantic Association	20	5*	NC	NC
• Famous Name-to-Face Matching	20	6*	NC	NC
WAB Sequential Commands	80	80	78*	2*
CYCLE (Sentence Comprehension) Subtests:
• Cycle 2,3 (declaratives, possession)	10	10	9	5*
• Cycle 4 (active & passive voice; double embedding)	15	14*	15	6*
• Cycle 5,7 (passive voice, subject relatives)	10	10	10	5*
• Cycle 8 (object clefting; object relative clauses)	10	10	10	NC
• Cycle 9 (object relatives; relative pronouns)	10	9	7*	1*
PALPA Reading Regular Words	30	30	30	14†
PALPA Reading Exception Words	30	27†	20†	6†
Motor Speech Evaluation (Wertz et al., 1984)	--	WNL	WNL	WNL

^*indicates impaired performance relative to normal controls from Gorno Tempini et al., 2004a/c or

^†published norms

NC = not collected

WAB = Western Aphasia Battery (Kertesz, 1982)

Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 2001)

CYCLE = Curtiss-Yamada Comprehensive Language Evaluation- Receptive (Curtiss & Yamada, 1988)

PALPA = Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia (Kay, Lesser, & Coltheart, 1992)

WNL = within normal limits

Note: only a subset of tests could be administered in 2004, due to the severity of the patient’s language impairment