Table 1.
Speech, language and cognitive measures.
| Construct Measured | Assessment Measure | Task Description | Score Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexical Retrieval | PNT Short-Form + 60 in-house items | Naming pictures of objects (nouns) | Percent Correct |
| Semantic Judgments | TALSA Category Judgment Test | Judging whether two pictures belong to the same category or not | Percent Correct |
| Auditory Comprehension | TALSA Lexical Comprehension Test | Selecting a picture that matches an auditory word from four pictures (semantic foils) | Percent Correct |
| WAB-R Yes/No Questions | Answering yes or no questions with increasingly complex, abstract content | Percent Correct | |
| Speech Fluency | BDAE Cookie Theft Picture Description | Describing what you see in a visual picture scene | Words per utterance |
| Motor Speech | Alternating Motion Rates (AMRs) | Producing puh, tuh, and kuh as fast and steadily as possible | Syllables per second |
| Sequential Motion Rates (SMRs) | Producing puh-tuh-kuh as fast and steadily as possible | 3 correct syllable triads or not | |
| Speech Perception | TALSA Phoneme Discrimination: Real Words | Judging whether two auditorily presented words are exactly the same or not | Percent Correct |
| TALSA Phoneme Discrimination: Pseudowords | Judging whether two auditorily presented non-words are exactly the same or not | Percent Correct | |
| Verbal Working Memory | Digit Span: Forward | Repeating digit strings of increasing length in the same order as they were presented | Span Length |
| Digit Span: Backward | Repeating digit strings of increasing length in reverse order as they were presented | Span Length | |
| Nonverbal working Memory | Spatial Span: Forward | Selecting sequences of blocks of increasing length in the same order in which they were | Span Length |
| Spatial Span: Backward | Selecting sequences of blocks of increasing in the reverse order in which they were presented | Span Length |