boston diagnostic aphasia examination

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Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination

Purpose: Designed as a comprehensive measure ofaphasia.

Population: Adults.

Time: (180) minutes.

Description: Determines disorders of language functionand neurologically recognized aphasic syndromes. Containsa short form for rapid access to diagnostic classification and

quantitative assessment.


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Materials Included:

- Stimulus Cards

- Record Booklets

- Video (Demonstrating test procedures and

scoring)


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Evaluates various modalities

- Perceptual Modalities

- Auditory and visual.- Comprehension, analysis, problem-solving

- Response Modalities

- Writing, articulation, and manipulation


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1. Conversationaland expository

speech2. Auditory

Comprehension

3. Oral Expression


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Conversational and

expository speech

.


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1.Free conversation

Start w/ familiar topic ,3 minutes of

conversation, using open-ended questions

(What type of

work did you

do before your

illness?)


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2.Picture

Description

Cookie theftpicture is

presented (Tell me

everything you see

going on in this

picture)Point to

neglected features inpicture and ask for

expansion.


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3.Story retell

Lay out first set of pictures;

examiner read text pointing

to relevant pictures.

Examiner asks client to retellstory.


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Scores :

- Assess client on

Aphasia Severity

Rating Scale from 0-5

see record booklet pg 8)


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Auditory

Comprehension


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1.Word Discrimination:3 Stimulus card containing pictures

Clinician: Show me in what picturethe person is _______________

two points for correct

identification.

2.Commands: Giveclient a series of commands

increasing in complexity.

3.Complex Ideational

Material Test: Closed-endedquestions Starting with simple

facts ("Will a stone sink in

water?")

.Body-Part Identification4

The patient is asked to point on his

own body to the part named by

the examiner, with the command,

"Show me your (slight pause) __ .


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Oral Expression


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Screening of special categories:

Letters,numbers and colors; use stimulus cards ,

Scoring: 1 point for each correct response.

Naming in categories:Actions, animals

and tools; (What is this/it/he doing),

Scoring: 1 point for each correct response .


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3.Oral Reading:

- Basic Oral Word Reading: Client given list ofwords to read one at a time.

- Oral Reading of Sentence Comprehension:Client reads sentences.

- Reading Comprehension Sentences and

Paragraphs: Given a phrase, the client must finishthe sentence given choices; sentence complexity

increases. Scoring:1 point for each correct


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:. Writing

- Mechanics of Writing: Perform nine numbered

writing tasks; such as signature, printed name etc.

- Basic Encoding Skills: Clinician dictates words andclient writes them.

- Oral Spelling: Clinician is instructed to spell six

words aloud.

- Written Picture Naming: Shown picture cards of

actions or objects and asked to spell words.

Scoring: 1 point for each correctly spelled word


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ABSTRACTNineteen stable left-hemisphere stroke patients with aphasia were

evaluated by the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) and the

Token Test (TT), and by cranial computed tomography (CT). The types ofaphasia included Broca (three patients), Wernicke (four patients),

conduction (four patients), transcortical motor (four patients), and global

(four patients). The lesions, as localized by CT scan, were superimposed

onto five composite lesion localization maps for these five aphasia

syndromes. There was good correlation between BDAE aphasia type and

lesion localization. On CT scans, the locations of cortical language areas lie

in a specific relationship to parts of the ventricular system.

Article

Lesion localization in aphasia with cranial computed tomography and the

Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examand, Ph.D.MARGARET A. NAESER

, M.DROBERT W. HAYWARD
http://www.neurology.org/search?author1=MARGARET+A.+NAESER&sortspec=date&submit=Submithttp://www.neurology.org/search?author1=ROBERT+W.+HAYWARD&sortspec=date&submit=Submithttp://www.neurology.org/search?author1=ROBERT+W.+HAYWARD&sortspec=date&submit=Submithttp://www.neurology.org/search?author1=MARGARET+A.+NAESER&sortspec=date&submit=Submit


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1.http://www.neurology.org/conte

nt/28/6/545.short

2.https://sites.google.com/site/amel

iataylorsadultresourcesite/diagnosti

c-language-assessments/the-boston-

diagnostic-aphasia-examination

3. Book : The Assessment of Aphasiaand Related Disorders .

By :HAROLD GOODGLASS, Ph.D.with the collaboration of

EDITH KAPLAN, Ph.D.


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