Aphasia
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Radboud University Nijmegen
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Aphasia based on clinical judgement of a speech and language pathologist; - Male and female; - Age between 30 and 80 years old; - Native speaker of Dutch; - 6 weeks to 6 months post-onset of a LH stroke; - Testable with: (a) Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT-NL; Swinburn, Porter & Howard, 2014) (b) Amsterdam-Nijmegen Everyday Language Test (ANELT; Blomert, Koster & Kean, 1995)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Prior stroke; - Aphasia caused by tumor or trauma; - A c-score of 3 (or below) at the CAT-NL subtests ’comprehension of spoken words’, ‘comprehension of spoken sentences’, and ‘comprehension of spoken paragraphs’; - (Even with visual aid) profound visual perceptual disorders; - (Even with hearing aid) profound hearing deficit; - Intellectual disability; - Neurodegenerative diseases; - Speech disorder (i.e. less than 90% intelligible speech output)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Quantitative measure of verbal effectiveness (Ruiter, Kolk, Rietveld, Dijkstra & Lotgering, 2011), based on experimentally adapted scenarios of the ANELT(Blomert, Koster & Kean, 1995) 2) Quantitative measure of verbal efficiency (Ruiter, Kolk, Rietveld, Dijkstra & Lotgering, 2011), based on experimentally adapted scenarios of the ANELT(Blomert, Koster & Kean, 1995) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Qualitative measure of verbal effectiveness (Comprehensibility A-scale) based on the original ANELT(Blomert, Koster & Kean, 1995) | — |
Contacts
Public ContactMarina Ruiter
Radboud University - Centre for Language Studies
Outcome results
None listed