Table 1.
Demographics and speech and language data (mean [minimum, maximum]) of clinical groups.
| Progressive apraxia of speech (n = 24) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPAOS (Aphasia absent) (n = 7) |
AOS + aphasia (Aphasia present) (n = 17) |
Dysarthria absent (n = 15) |
Dysarthria present (n = 9) |
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| Demographics (years) | ||||
| Age at evaluation | 70.86 (60, 80) | 64.59 (29, 88) | 66.33 (51, 79) | 66.56 (29, 88) |
| Disease duration | 3.5 (1.5, 8) | 4.27 (.5, 13) | 3.28 (.5, 8) | 5.71 (2, 13) |
| Education | 17.3 (15, 19) | 14.9 (11, 19) | 15 (11,19) | 16.63 (16,19) |
| Cognitive–language–speech measures | ||||
| MoCa (/30, unimpaired) | 27.67 (26, 30) | 21.19 (12, 26) | 22.93 (12, 29) | 23 (16, 30) |
| WAB-AQ (/100, unimpaired) | 98.11 (97.2, 99.2) | 88.64 (66.2, 98.9) | 93.7 (74.3, 99.2) | 87.58 (66.2, 99.2) |
| ASRS-3 total (/52, severe) | 20.71 (10, 39) | 22.44 (9, 49) | 17.79 (9, 26) | 28.33 (11, 49) |
| AES % error (/100, severe) | 31.61 (5.36, 89.09) | 42.64 (3.57, 87.3) | 31.60 (3.57, 54.55) | 53.68 (10.71, 89.09) |
| Patient rated measure | ||||
| CPIB (/30, no restrictions) | 12.29 (0, 28) | 4.29 (0, 24) | 7.6 (0, 28) | 5 (0, 18) |
| CPIB T-score (/71, no restrictions) | 43.13 (24.2, 64.2) | 32.46 (24.2, 57.8) | 37.27 (24.2, 64.2) | 32.9 (24.2, 50.3) |
| SLP rated measures | ||||
| Aphasia present | 0 | 1 | n = 11 | n = 6 |
| Aphasia severity (/4, severe) | 0 | 1.5 (1, 3) | 1.42 (0, 2.5) | 1.29 (0, 3) |
| Dysarthria present | n = 3 | n = 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Dysarthria severity (/4, severe) | 1.17 (.5, 2) | 1.42 (1, 2.5) | 0 | 1.33 (.5, 2.5) |
| AOS severity (/4, severe) | 2.07 (1, 4) | 2.18 (1, 4) | 1.7 (1, 3) | 2.89 (1, 4) |
| MSD severity (/10, normal) | 6.29 (3, 8) | 5.48 (3, 8) | 6.27 (4, 8) | 4.78 (3, 8) |
| FCM MS (/7, normal) | 5.7 (2, 7) | 4.9 (2, 7) | 5.9 (4, 7) | 3.9 (2, 7) |
| FMC LE (/7, normal) | 7 (7, 7) | 5.3 (2, 7) | 6 (4, 7) | 5.3 (2, 7) |
| FCM LC (/7, normal) | 7 (7, 7) | 6 (4, 7) | 6.6 (5, 7) | 5.9 (4, 7) |
Note. PPAOS = primary progressive apraxia of speech; AOS = apraxia of speech ; MoCA = Montreal Cognitive Assessment; WAB-AQ = Western Aphasia Battery–Revised Aphasia Quotient; ASRS-3 = Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale–Version 3; AES = Articulatory Error Score; CPIB = Communicative Participation Item Bank; SLP = speech-language pathologist; MSD = motor speech disorder; FCM = Functional Communication Measure; MS = Motor Speech; LE = Language Expression; LC = Language Comprehension.