Comprehensive Aphasia Test - Softcover

Swinburn, Kate; Porter, Gillian; Howard, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841693790 ISBN 13: 9781841693798

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2004

Synopsis

The Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) is a test for people who have acquired aphasia and can be completed over one or two assessment sessions. The test includes a user manual, a ring-bound cognitive screen and language battery, a ring-bound disability questionnaire and a scoring booklet. The cognitive section assesses people's abilities across a range of task that can affect rehabilitation. Forming the main body of the test, the language battery provides a profile of performance across all modalities of language production and comprehension. An optional innovative disability questionnaire explores the impact of aphasia from the perspective of the person with aphasia. In addition the CAT helps the therapist to track changes over the course of recovery, and provides a guide to likely outcomes on the basis of an early assessment. It is supported by normative data on people both with an without aphasia, and extensive data on reliability and clinical validity. The CAT allows users to:

• Identify underlying impairments
• Find where to focus assessments using PALPA and other batteries
• Ascertain the practical, psychological and social impact of aphasia
• Create a profile of strengths and weaknesses to guide therapy.

Structured around fully up-to-date models of language processing from cognitive neuropsychology this test is an indispensable resource for speech and language therapists and researchers. It provides as much information about people's language ability as possible in a relatively brief test designed to be completed in 90-120 minutes.

The Scoring Software for the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is available at https://www.routledge.com/Scoring-Software-for-the-Comprehensive-Aphasia-Test/Keith-Croot/p/book/9781848720640 

Additional scoring booklets can be ordered in packs of 10 at https://www.routledge.com/Comprehensive-Aphasia-Test-Scoring-Book-pack-of-10/Swinburn-Porter-Howard/p/book/9781841695198

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Review

"The rationale for the test is excellent and the manual offers very useful and well-resourced guidance about related areas and pointers for clinicians." - Annette Cameron & Penny Gravill, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in the British Aphasiology Society Newsletter

Synopsis

The Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) is a new test for people who have acquired aphasia and can be completed over one or two assessment sessions. The battery contains a cognitive screen, a language battery and a disability questionnaire. The cognitive section assesses people's abilities across a range of task that can affect rehabilitation. Forming the main body of the test, the language battery provides a profile of performance across all modalities of language production and comprehension. An optional innovative disability questionnaire explores the impact of aphasia from the perspective of the person with aphasia. In addition the CAT helps the therapist to track changes over the course of recovery, and provides a guide to likely outcomes on the basis of an early assessment. It is supported by normative data on people both with an without aphasia, and extensive data on reliability and clinical validity. The CAT allows users to: * identify underlying impairments * find where to focus assessments using PALPA and other batteries * ascertain the practical, psychological and social impact of aphasia * create a profile of strengths and weaknesses to guide therapy.

Structured around fully up-to-date models of language processing from cognitive neuropsychology this test is an indispensable resource for speech and language therapists and researchers. It provides as much information about people's language ability as possible in a relatively brief test designed to be completed in 90-120 minutes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1841693790
• ISBN 13: 9781841693798
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300