TABLE 2.
Results of our Patients’ Speech and Language Assessments Across Visits
| Domain/Area Assessed | Test/Task Used | Patient 1 | Patient 2† | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visit 1 | Visit 1 | Visit 2 | ||
| Global Language Ability | WAB–R AQ | 94.4 | 97.2 | 64.9 |
| Information Content | WAB–R Information Content | 9/10 | 10/10 | 6/10 |
| Verbal Fluency | WAB–R Fluency | 9/10 | 9/10 | 4/10 |
| Spontaneous Speech | WAB–R Spontaneous Speech | 18/20 | 19/20 | 10/20 |
| Auditory Comprehension | WAB–R Auditory verbal comprehension | 10/10 | 10/10 | 8.65/10 |
| Verbal Repetition | WAB–R Repetition | 9.8/10 | 10/10 | 6.6/10 |
| Naming/Word Retrieval | WAB–R Naming | 9.4/10 | 9.6/10 | 7.2/10 |
| Oral Reading | WAB–R Reading Commands | 20/20 | 20/20 | 17/20 |
| Reading Comprehension | WAB–R Reading, Comprehension of Sentences | 40/40 | 40/40 | 32/40 |
| Surface versus Deep (phonological) Alexia Assessment | WAB–R Reading Irregular Words | 10/10 | 10/10 | 9/10 |
| WAB–R Reading Nonwords | 10/10 | 9/10 | 3/10 | |
| Writing Output | WAB–R Writing Output | 33.5/34 | 34/34 | 19/34 |
| Surface versus Deep (phonological) Agraphia Assessment | WAB–R Writing Irregular Words | 10/10 | 10/10 | 10/10 |
| WAB–R Writing Nonwords | 9/10 | 4/10 | 2/10 | |
| Verbal Fluency | WAB–R Animal Fluency (M = 18.2, SD = 4.2)‡ | 14 (<16th %tile)‡ | 15 (<23rd %tile)‡ | 7 (<1st %tile)‡ |
| Action Fluency | 5 (<2.5th %tile)§ | 9 (<2.5th %tile)§ | 2(<2.5th %tile)§ | |
| FAS Letter Fluency (M = 42, SD = 12.1)‡ | 10 (<1st %tile)‡ | 17 (<2nd %tile)‡ | DNT | |
| Single Word Receptive Vocabulary | PPVT | SS = 114 82nd %tile |
SS = 97 42nd %tile |
SS = 89 23rd %tile |
| Noun Confrontation Naming | BNT–SF | 15/15 | 13/15 | DNT |
| Associative Semantic knowledge | PPTT | 47/52 | 49/52 | 47/52 |
| Grammatic/Syntactic Comprehension | Token Test, Part V | 17/22 | 21/22 | DNT |
| Syntactic Expression | NAT | DNT | DNT | 2/10 |
| Comprehension of Syntax | BDAE Syntactic Processing | DNT | DNT | 9/12 |
| BDAE Reversible Possessives | DNT | DNT | 10/10 | |
| BDAE Embedded Sentences | DNT | DNT | 7/10 | |
| Sentence repetition | BDAE Repetition | DNT | DNT | 5/10 |
| Word Knowledge | SYDBAT Naming | DNT | DNT | 17/30 |
| SYDBAT Semantic Association | DNT | DNT | 28/30 | |
| Motor Speech‖ | Apraxia of Speech | None | None | None |
| Dysarthria | None | None | None | |
| Nonverbal Oral Praxis | NVOA | 32/32 | 26/32 | 8/32 |
Shading indicates abnormal or clinically impaired.
At the third visit, patient 2 was not a candidate for assessment secondary to the severity of her deficits (see Discussion).
Evaluation protocol described in Josephs et al (2013).
AQ = Aphasia Quotient. BDAE = Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination. BNT = Boston Naming Test, short form (Lansing et al, 1999). DNT = did not test. FAS = Letters “F”, “A” and “S”. NAT = Northwestern Anagram Test (Weintraub et al, 2009). NC = not completed. NVOA = nonverbal oral apraxia (Botha et al, 2014). PPTT = Pyramids and Palm Trees Test (Howard and Patterson, 1992). PPVT = Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Dunn and Dunn, 2006). SS = standard score (100 = average, 85 is −1 SD, 115 is +1 SD). SYDBAT = Sydney Language Battery. TT = Token Test. WAB–R = Western Aphasia Battery—Revised.