Translation and Clinical Implementation of a Test of Language and Short-term Memory in Aphasia.



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Neurology
Therapuetic Areas:Neurology
Healthy:No
Age Range:21 - 80
Updated:8/22/2018
Start Date:December 15, 2017
End Date:November 30, 2022
Contact:Nadine Martin, Ph.D.
Email:nmartin@temple.edu
Phone:215 294 1870

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Translation and Clinical Implementation of a Test for Language and Short-term Memory in Aphasia.

This project aims to develop a clinically feasible version of a laboratory-developed
assessment battery for language and verbal short-term memory difficulties in aphasia.

Over five years, we will develop a clinically feasible test that can be used to assess
in-depth the language and verbal short-term memory abilities of individuals with aphasia
(Called the TALSA - Temple Assessment of Language and Short-term memory in Aphasia. Based on
a test that we have developed and tested over the past decade, we will create a shorter
version that can be used by clinicians in a rehabilitation setting. The data to support this
development will come from two sources: (1) clinicians in rehabilitation facilities who will
use the new clinical test and provide feedback on the test (administration, value etc) and
(2) people with aphasia who will be administered the longer version to help us identify the
best test items in the laboratory version of the TALSA to be carried over to the shorter
clinical version.

We are recruiting individuals with aphasia as well as people without aphasia (to serve as
controls) to help with development of this assessment battery. The battery consists of
between 15 and 20 subtests that assess many aspects of language and verbal short-term memory.

Inclusion Criteria:

- . single or multiple left hemisphere lesions

- at least one year post-stroke.

- high-school educated

- negative histories for mental illness and alcohol/substance abuse.

- passed an audiometric pure-tone, air conduction screening at 25 dB HL at 1K, 2K and 4K
Hz for at least one ear.

Exclusion Criteria:

English as a second language Right hemisphere stroke Less than 6 months post-onset of
stroke.
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