Table 2.

Summary of the conceptual frameworks and gold standard tools of the four studies that included PWA.

#	Tool	Conceptual Framework	Gold Standard Measure
1	ALA [44]	A-FROM [48] and the ICF [6] ALA was designed into a priori 4 domains of the ICF (1) Language impairment (2) participation (3) environment (4) personal	A-FROM [48]
2	ACOM [45]	ACOM was based on “Functional Communication”, a concept which includes a person’s ability to effectively convey and receive personally relevant messages regardless of modality and to do so in his or her natural environment ACOM was analyzed based on the seven domains of the ICF [6] (1) Community Life (2) Domestic Life (3) Economic Life (4) Education and Work (5) Interpersonal and Leisure (6) Recreational and (7) Self-Care	-Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) Severity Scale [49] -PICA (Porch Index of Communicative Ability) [50] -ASHA FACS (The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Functional Assessment of Communication Skills for Adults; [51])
3	MOSE [8]	ICF based [6]: was designed into a priori domains of the ICF framework	-The Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) version 4.0 [52]—National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) [53]
4	AIQ [26]	Social Model of Disability by Byng and Duchan [47]	Burden of Stroke Scale (BOSS) [54]