Table 2.
Language assessment scores.
| BNT | PPVT | PALPA8 | Western Aphasia Battery (Bedside) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw | Scaled | Content | Fluency | Comprehension | Commands | Repetition | Naming | Aphasia Quotient | |||
| P1 | 30 | 1 | 92 | 3.3 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 7.5 | 10 | 77.5 |
| P2 | 39 | 1 | 85 | 93.3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 8.5 | 75.8 |
| P3 | 13 | 1 | 77 | NT | 5 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4.5 | 45.8 |
| P4 | 9 | 1 | 96 | NT | 6 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 5.5 | 52.5 |
| P5 | 50 | 6 | 114 | 93.3 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 96.7 |
| P6 | 35 | 2 | 97 | 40.0 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8.5 | 85.8 |
| P7 | 53 | 7 | 103 | 50.0 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9.5 | 87.5 |
| P8 | 60 | 13 | 104 | 70.0 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8.5 | 10 | 89.2 |
| P9 | 0 | 1 | 95 | NT | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1.5 | 1 | 34.2 |
| P10 | 18 | 1 | 73 | NT | 6 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7.5 | 59.2 |
| P11 | 39 | 2 | 84 | 33.3 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 68.3 |
| P12 | 5 | 1 | 70 | NT | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 28.3 |
| P13 | 46 | 4 | 100 | 86.7 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 98.3 |
| P14 | 49 | 6 | 96 | 90.0 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 100.0 |
| Mean (SD) | 3.4 (3.54) | 91.9 (12.59) | 40.0 (40.0) | 7.6 (2.95) | 5.6 (3.27) | 9.2 (0.97) | 6.4 (3.13) | 6.5 (2.55) | 7.6 (3.10) | 71.4 (23.91) | |
BNT = Boston Naming Test54. Scores scaled based on age and years of education; PPVT = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test55; PALPA = Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia (Kay et al., 1992), PALPA 8 = total score on nonword reading subtest; Western Aphasia Battery- Bedside version53, Content = Spontaneous Speech Content, Fluency = Spontaneous Speech Fluency, Comprehension = Auditory Verbal Comprehension, Commands = Sequential Commands, NT = Not tested,Bedside Aphasia Quotient (WAB-AQ) was determined by summing the Speech Content, Fluency, Auditory Verbal Comprehension, Sequential Commands, Repetition, and Object Naming scores, dividing the sum by 6 and then multiplying the result by 10.