Table 2.
Excerpts from spoken and written WAB picture descriptions for each patient, illustrating the absence of agrammatism, and language output characteristics not incompatible with lvPPA
| GRN-positive patient 1 |
| Verbal picture description: “OK, well there’s, there’s kids, it’s in the summer and they’re havin’ a, by the lake and doin’, flyin’ a kite, and they’re, they’re out there fishing, and sand, she’s makin’ a sand picture.” |
| Written picture description: “This picture is a beautiful summer setting. The kids are having fun.” |
| GRN-positive patient 2 |
| Verbal picture description: “There’s the house and the tree and the car and the flag, and then there’s the woman and the man are having the, uh, picnic basket, and here’s a kid having, um, kite, and the dog is following him…” |
| Written picture description: “My mother and father are eating a picnic on a basket and blanket. My child has been running with a kite and a dog was following my child.” |
| GRN-positive patient 3 |
| Verbal picture description: “Well, it’s the time getting all this crap. And here, there. Yea, I don’t know. Well, the dog, or the thing.” |
| Written picture description: Patient initially attempted to copy the picture. Then, with reinstruction, wrote only “Thanks.” |
| GRN-negative patient 4 |
| Verbal picture description: “It’s a family. And they’re…kids are playing with the dogs…Don’t know what that is there, but looks like some kind of, er, fish.” |
| Written picture description: “Home with family and with kits. Father and wife with f” |
| GRN-negative patient 5 |
| Verbal picture description: “We’re going to go look at some pretty pictures. We’re going to see a sail…dot, and we’re liking to read… playing with the dogs, we like that…we like to have all the sand, and things like that they do for making castles…” |
| Written picture description:” We are going to a lovely home and family…We fish for good times and the sand for the small kids and a great salad and for the family.” |
| GRN-negative patient 6 |
| Verbal picture description: “Well, the picture is of a vacation area, uh, with a young boy with a dog following behind him is leading a cat…kite, up over the house where there is a car.” |
| Written picture description: “The Family of John and Mary went caning on the beach of Mayo.” |