Table 2.
Participants’ (N = 168) Characteristics
Variable | Mean (SD) or Frequency |
---|---|
Age | 62 (12) years |
Sex | 96 males, 72 females |
Handedness | 149 right, 14 left, 5 ambidextrous |
Education | 15.3 (2.9) years |
Race | 141 White, 18 African American, 5 Hispanic/Latino, 2 Asian, 1 Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, 1 Mixed |
Time post-onset | 5.4 (5.0) years |
WAB-R AQ (max = 100) | 75 (16.7) |
BNT (max = 15) | 7.9 (4.3) |
VNT (max = 22) | 16 (5.7) |
WAB-R type | 61 Anomic, 35 Broca, 32 Conduction, 11 Wernicke, 8 Transcortical motor, 21 not aphasic* |
Note: BNT – Boston Naming Test-Second Edition (Kaplan et al., 2001); VNT – Verb Naming Test (Cho-Reyes & Thompson, 2012); WAB-R – Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (Kertesz, 2007); AQ – Aphasia Quotient.
“not aphasic” refers to participants whose WAB-R AQ was above the test battery’s “normal or nonaphasic” cutoff of 93.8 but who still considered themselves (and were considered by their clinicians) to demonstrate aphasia.