|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
Different from a textbook or academic journal, the File represents a collection of explicit descriptions about therapy interventions written by practitioners themselves. The description of the rationale for the therapy, the intervention itself and evaluation of outcomes are of paramount importance. Each contributor guides the reader through the thinking that they engaged in as they decided what to do, often with considerable frankness about the difficulties involved. The File will be of equal value to experienced practitioners and students alike.
Related link: Free Email Alerting
• It is comprehensive: it tests a wide range of language
functions as well as related neuropsychological deficits. • The
AIQ allows clinicians to begin to examine the effect of impairment
on the patients’ lives to guide focused interventions, and to
involve the patient in the process of goal setting • Clinically
useful: it is relatively brief but maximally informative and can
typically be completed in 1-2 assessment sessions. • It assesses
the severity of aphasia over time so clinicians can use the
information from the initial tests alone to predict the recovery of
their patients.
Each Scoring Book is a complete set of score sheets for the
Comprehensive Aphasia Test bound together in a convenient booklet
with intuitive layout for scoring of each sub-test. Front page
features a client information sheet for easy filing, whilst a
master page allows for recording re-test scores in the same place
for easy comparison. Scoring Books are supplied in packs of ten.
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 scoring booklet, and - new to this
release - a concise Aphasia Impact Questionnaire which replaces the
former 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. The Aphasia Impact
Questionnaire was co-produced with people with aphasia. It is a
pictorial Patient Reported Outcome Measure, which produces both
qualitative and quantitative information. It supports the person
with aphasia to give a subjective rating of how language
difficulties identified in the Language Battery affect their daily
life, enabling first steps towards goal setting. 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 and 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, from the perceptive of the person with 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.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|