Table 1.
Patient Demographics and Aphasia Characteristics
| Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Exam* | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient | Age (yrs) |
Gender | Years Post-CVA |
CVA | Right Paresis |
BNT max=20 |
Words per Longest Phrase |
Word Repetition max=10 |
Sentence Repetition max=10 |
Word Comprehension max=37 |
Sentence Comprehension max=12 |
| P1 | 51 | M | 5 | L MCA | Mild | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 28.5 | 5 |
| P2 | 44 | M | 1.5 | L MCA | Mild-Mod | 9 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 33.1 | 6 |
| P3 | 58 | M | 8 | L MCA | Mild-Mod | 16 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 32 | 7 |
| P4 | 52 | M | 10 | L MCA | Moderate | 15 | 1–2 | 8 | 0 | 35.5 | 4 |
| P5 | 76 | M | 2 | L MCA | Severe | 13 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 32.8 | 5 |
| P6 | 52 | M | 9 | L MCA | Severe | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 9 |
| P7 | 67 | F | 30 | L ICA | Severe | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 26.5 | 3 |
| P8 | 57 | F | 6 | L ICH | Severe | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 3 |
CVA = cerebro-vascular accident
MCA= Middle Cerebral Artery; ICA= Internal Carotid Artery; ICH= Intracerebral Hemorrhage
BNT = First 20 pictures from the Boston Naming Test, E. Kaplan, H. Goodglass, S. Weintraub, The Boston Naming Test Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2001.
*
H. Goodglass, E. Kaplan, B. Baressi, The Assessment of Aphasia and Related Disorders, 3rd Ed., Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, , 2001.