Table 1.
Language testing data for aphasic participants.
| Assessment | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | P7 | P8 | P9 | P10 | P11 | P12 | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Aphasia Battery-Revised | |||||||||||||
| Aphasia Quotient (severity measure) | 71.7 | 77.0 | 82.5 | 78.0 | 77.2 | 76.6 | 83.8 | 65.1 | 88.6 | 71.3 | 59.0 | 88.0 | 76.6 |
| Auditory Verbal Comprehension | 8.5 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 8.8 | 9.9 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 9.8 | 8.7 |
| Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences | |||||||||||||
| Sentence Production Test | |||||||||||||
| Canonical sentences | 33.3 | 53.3 | 80.0 | 46.7 | 46.7 | 80.0 | 100.0 | 60.0 | 73.3 | 13.3 | n/a | 100.0 | 62.4 |
| Noncanonical sentences | 0.0 | 26.7 | 46.7 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 60.0 | 33.3 | 26.7 | 0.0 | n/a | 60.0 | 30.9 |
| Sentence Comprehension Test | |||||||||||||
| Canonical sentences | 86.7 | 73.3 | 66.7 | 60.0 | 80.0 | 86.7 | 100.0 | 86.7 | 86.7 | 46.7 | 66.7 | 80.0 | 76.7 |
| Noncanonical sentences | 80.0 | 93.3 | 73.3 | 73.3 | 26.7 | 46.7 | 80.0 | 53.3 | 66.7 | 46.7 | 40.0 | 46.7 | 60.6 |
| Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia | |||||||||||||
| Nonword Discrimination | 88.9 | 97.2 | 88.9 | 94.4 | 93.1 | 97.2 | 97.2 | 97.2 | 98.6 | 80.6 | 88.9 | 94.4 | 93.1 |
| Auditory Lexical Decision | 93.1 | 91.3 | 96.9 | 91.9 | 96.3 | 87.5 | 96.9 | 95.6 | 97.5 | 92.5 | 93.1 | 88.8 | 93.4 |
| Cinderella narrative speech sample | |||||||||||||
| Percent grammatical sentences | 18.8 | 12.1 | 93.3 | 47.5 | 0.0 | 30.0 | 53.7 | 0.0 | 65.6 | 0.0 | 34.5 | 64.3 | 35.0 |
| Words per minute | 73.5 | 42.8 | 54.4 | 81.7 | 32.2 | 26.0 | 22.7 | 33.8 | 120.0 | 64.0 | 68.7 | 37.6 | 54.8 |
Notes: The highest possible Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) Aphasia Quotient is 100 (with neurologically intact adults scoring an average of 98.4 (Kertesz, 2007)); the highest possible score for the Auditory Verbal Comprehension subtest is 10. Scores on the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences and the Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia represent percent correct.