Table 2.
Clinical assessment of language functions administered before and after ILAT.
| BDAE | BDAE | TT | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auditory comprehension | Syntactic processing | BNT | (Number of errors) | |||||
| Patient | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | Before | After |
| 1 | 85 | 86 | 22 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 17 | 14 |
| 2 | 81 | 85 | 15 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 31 | 33 |
| 3 | 85 | 87 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 24 | 41 | 35 |
| 4 | 81 | 84 | 16 | 9 | 36 | 32 | 48 | 38 |
| 5 | 83 | 80 | 18 | 16 | 26 | 27 | 15 | 18 |
| 6 | 80 | 81 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 49 | 38 |
| 7 | 88 | 90 | 21 | 22 | 48 | 48 | 16 | 17 |
| 8 | 82 | 86 | 15 | 15 | 48 | 51 | 35 | 30 |
| Mean | 83.13 | 84.88* | 16.75 | 16.13 | 25.38 | 29.75* | 31.50 | 27.88* |
| SD | 2.70 | 3.23 | 3.54 | 4.58 | 16.69 | 13.31 | 14.16 | 9.96 |
BDAE (Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Battery; Goodglass and Kaplan, 1972)—Auditory comprehension composite score includes word comprehension, word comprehension by categories, and semantic probe subtests; Syntactic processing composite score includes touching A with B, reversible possessives and embedded sentences subtests; BNT, Boston Naming Test. TT, Token Test (De Renzi and Vignolo, 1962).
*
Indicates significant differences between pre and post-therapy assessment.