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The Location Learning Test - Revised Edition (LLT-R): An administration and scoring manual The Location Learning Test can be used to measure episodic spatial memory for object locations. Description: The Location Learning Test - Revised (LLT-R) assesses spatial memory. Spatial memory is highly relevant for everyday functioning, as it enables us to remember the location of objects in our environment and to navigate. Spatial-memory deficits are often found in dementia and other forms of amnesia, but may also occur as a result of more focal brain injury (like a stroke). To read more Click Here |
The Montreal Evaluation of Communication (MEC): A clinical test of communication Use the MEC to assess communication in your patient with right hemisphere stroke or damage to the frontal lobes. Description: The Montreal Evaluation of Communication (MEC) is a clinical test to evaluate language and communication ability in people who have problems with communication in the absence of aphasia such as patients with right hemisphere stroke or damage to the frontal lobes. The MEC kit comprises a manual, a stimulus book, response booklets and informant questionnaires along with audio-files. MEC is designed to provide speech pathologists and neuropsychologists with the means to examine the capacity of their patient to use language to communicate effectively. It assesses higher order language problems including the ability to use and understand lexico-semantic processes, metaphor and pragmatic inference and prosody. Even without a frank aphasic disorder, these kinds of impairments can impact negatively on social and interpersonal functioning and result in reduced social opportunities and quality of life. To read more Click Here |
Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory (CAPM): A measure of memory for future intentions after brain injury Use the CAPM to evaluate everyday prospective memory performance in clients with brain impairment due to traumatic brain injury or stroke. Description: The Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory (CAPM) is a questionnaire designed to evaluate prospective memory function in people with brain injury. Remembering to perform intentions at a future point in time, or prospective memory, is essential for safe independent living and employability. The CAPM measures the frequency of prospective memory failures, the amount of concern they cause, and the reasons for memory lapses. Self-report and significant other versions of the CAPM can be compared to determine the patient’s level of self-awareness for memory impairment. A detailed manual explains how to use the assessment and its established psychometric properties including normative data. Neuropsychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists and other rehabilitation professionals can use the CAPM to understand the nature and extent of prospective memory problems in their patient’s daily life. The CAPM can provide a person-centred basis for goal setting prior to memory rehabilitation and a means of evaluating the effectiveness of memory interventions. To read more Click Here |
The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT): an assessment of social cognition. TASIT is used worldwide to assess social cognitive disorders Description: TASIT is designed to assess social cognition in people with acquired brain injuries, neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders. It uses videos of actors in everyday situations. It is suitable for use by speech pathologist and clinical neuropsychologists to assess aspects of social cognition for diagnostic, management and treatment purposes. TASIT comprises three parts. Part 1 measures the ability to categorise emotions while Parts 2 and 3 use probe questions to assess the ability to understand feelings, thoughts, beliefs and intentions of the speakers as well as what they are mean by what they say (pragmatic inference). TASIT has alternate forms and normative data for around 400 adult speakers (Form A aged 16 to 75+; Form B; 16-40 years) and 650 adolescents (aged 13-15). To read more Click Here |
The Awareness of Social Inference Test – Short (TASIT-S): a brief assessment of social cognition TASIT-S is a new short version of the widely used TASIT to assess social cognitive disorders Description: TASIT-S is designed to provide a brief assessment of social cognition in people with acquired brain injuries, neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders. It uses videos of actors in everyday situations. It is suitable for use by speech pathologists and clinical neuropsychologists to assess aspects of social cognition for diagnostic, management and treatment purposes. TASIT-S comprises three parts. Part 1 measures the ability to categorise emotions while Parts 2 and 3 use probe questions to assess the ability to understand feelings, thoughts, beliefs and intentions of the speakers as well as what they are mean by what they say (pragmatic inference). TASIT-S has normative data for around 620 Australian speakers (aged 13 to 75+) and 180 adults from the USA. To read more Click Here |
