L3A - Assessment Tools

Question 1

What are the different types of assessment tools?

Answer 1

1. Interview-based rating scales
2. Administered to clients scales
3. Comprehension batteries
4. Domain-specific tests

Question 2

What are Caregiver interview-based assessments? Provide 2 examples.

Answer 2

• Caregivers provide information about client’s function
• Clinician forms subjective opinion about client’s general cognitive function using mental status rating scales
• Not specific enough to formulate intervention goals
  1. Clinical Dementia Rating Scale
  2. Global Deteriorating Scale

Question 3

What are the examples of the assessment tools administered to clients?

Answer 3

1. Mini-mental State Exam (MMSE)
2. Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
3. Quality of Communication Life Scale

Question 4

Is the Quality of Communication Life Scale specific to dementia patients?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

What is a disadvantage of the assessment tools administered to clients (e.g. MMSE, MoCA)?

Answer 5

If someone has dementia, plus language difficulties on top, they will struggle to read and understand the instructions.

Question 6

What are examples of the Comprehensive batteries?

Answer 6

1. Severe Impairment Battery (SIB)
2. Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT)
3. Ross Information Processing Assessment (RIPA)
4. Standardized Touchscreen Assessment of Cognition (STAC)
5. Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders in Dementia (ABCD-2)
6. Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE-3)
7. Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia (PALPA)
8. Western Aphasia Battery (WAB-R)

Question 7

What is the only Comprehensive battery designed for dementia? What is it good for?

Answer 7

• Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders in Dementia (ABCD-2)
• Good for tracking changes

Question 8

Which Comprehensive Battery is just for language functions and doesn’t really go into cognition?

Answer 8

• Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE-3)

Question 9

Which Comprehensive Battery is language based? It is good for information about reading or sentence comprehension?

Answer 9

Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia - PALPA

Question 10

What are examples of domain-specific tests and batteries?

Answer 10

1. Naming Tests - BNT, PNT, GNT, The Word Test, TAWF
2. Pyramids & Palm Trees (PPTT) - noun semantics
3. Kissing & Dancing (KD) - verb semantics
4. Test for the Reception of Grammar (TROG)
5. Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) - lexical semantics
6. Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia (RCBA)
7. Gray Oral Reading Test-Diagnostic (GORT-D)
8. Test of Written Language (TOWL)
9. Test of Problem Solving (TOPS)