TESTS: Neurological Disorders
Below are products utilized in testing and
monitoring
Neurological Disorders.
We also sell
individual components for most tests.
Please contact our office for a
complete listing of items and prices.
Please note: prices are subject to
change without notice,
please contact us for current pricing.
Products listed in our Catalog under
"Neurological
Disorders":
Comprehensive Trail-Making
Test (CTMT)
Functional Linguistic
Communication Inventory (FLCI)
The Kaufman Speech Praxis
Treatment Kit
Kaufman Speech Praxis Test
for Children
(KSPT)
Test of Verbal
Conceptualization & Fluency (TVCF)
Brief Test
of Head Injury (BTHI)
OUR PRICE-$260.00
The Brief Test of Head Injury (BTHI) can quickly probe cognitive, linguistic,
and communicative abilities of patients with severe head trauma. The BTHI
provides useful diagnostic information for immediate treatment and a baseline
for charting recovery. It is an ideal first assessment post-coma because it
is brief and efficient (25 to 30 minutes to administer and 10 minutes to score).
BTHI can be given to an individual in one or more short sessions, if necessary.
Its sensitivity to small performance changes makes it useful for tracking
recovery patterns during the period of spontaneous recovery. Results can be
used in advising other team members on the best approaches for communicating
with a patient and structuring individualized treatment. Experienced clinicians
can identify problem areas to investigatge more thoroughly, using modality
specific standardized tests or informal measures.
Item clusters include Orientation and Attention, Following Commands, Linguistic
Organization, Reading Compre-hension, Naming, Memory, and Visual-Spatial Skills.
The test yields cluster raw and standard scores and a total. The Total Raw
Score can be converted to a percentile rank, standard score, or a normative
Severity Score (Severe, Moderate, Mild, Borderline Normal). Internal consistency
coefficients were generally high: .65 to .86 for item clusters and .95 for
the BTHI Total Score. Test-retest (average 17 days interim) yielded significantly
higher retest means. Correlations with the Glasgow Coma Scale at admission
(.29) and at time of BTHI testing (.35) were low. Correlations with the Rancho
Los Amigos Scale at time of BTHI testing were moderately high (.75).
| BTHI -Complete
Kit Includes: (B8980) $260.00 |
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| Individual Components: |
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| B8980-A | BTHI-MANUAL | $110.00 |
| B8980-B | BTHI-RECORD FORMS | $ 74.00 |
| B8980-C | BTHI-STIMULUS CARDS | $110.00 |
Comprehensive
Trail-Making Test (CTMT)
OUR COST-$145.00
Archives of
Clinical Neuropsychology had this to say about the CTMT:
The CTMT is an
invaluable, meticulously constructed, nationally normed, reliable and valid new
psychometric instrument. It provides clinicians and research workers with a
hierarchy of specific as well as global summary measures that operationally
define important basic and complex components of executive function. Its
component skills have been widely validated for application across the life span
and across important demographic groups in which it has been studied. This
revision and extension of the original TMT shows great promise that should
provide us with opportunities to deliver enhanced service to our patients. It is
an important new psychometric instrument that should be studied intensively and
applied widely in clinical as well as basic and applied research
settings.
Moses, J.A. (2004). Test review.Archives of Clinical
Neuropsychology, 19, 708.
The Comprehensive Trail-Making Test (CTMT) is
a new assessment based on time-tested techinques. The CTMT is a standardized set
of five visual search and sequencing tasks that are heavily influenced by
attention, concentration, resistance to distraction, and cognitive flexibility
(or set-shifting). Its primary uses include the evaluation and diagnosis of
brain injury and other forms of central nervous system compromise. More specific
purposes include the detection of frontal lobe deficits; problems with
psychomotor speed, visual search and sequencing, and attention; and impairments
in set-shifting.
Neuropsychological testing is necessary in a variety of
contexts and performed by a variety of professionals. Neuropsychologists;
clinical, counseling, school, and pediatric psychologists; occupational
therapists; speech and language professionals; physical therapists; and others
interested in objective testing of functionality in brain-behavior relationships
would all benefit from using the CTMT.
The CTMT is for individuals
ranging in age from 11 years through 74 years. Administration is timed and takes
approximately 5 to 12 minutes. Scoring typically requires less than 5 minutes.
Normative scores are provided in the form of T-scores, having a mean of 50 and a
standard deviation of 10, along with their accompanying percentile ranks.
The basic task of trail-making is to connect a series of stimuli
(numbers, expressed as numerals or in word form, and letters) in a specified
order as fast as possible. The score derived for each trail is the number of
seconds required to complete the task. The composite score is obtained by
pooling the T-scores from the individual trails. The five trails are similar but
also are different in some significant way. This easily administered set of
tasks is remarkably sensitive to neuropsychological deficits of many types.
The Five Trails - Brief Description:
Trail 1 - The examinee
draws a line to connect the numbers 1 through 25 in order. Each numeral is
contained in a plain circle.
Trail 2 - The examinee draws a line to
connect the numbers 1 through 25 in order. Each numeral is contained in a plain
circle. Twenty-nine empty distractor circles appear on the same page.
Trail 3 - The examinee draws a line to connect in the numbers 1 through
25 in order. Each is contained in a plain circle. Thirteen empty distractor
circles and 19 distractor circles containing irrelevant line drawings appear on
the same page.
Trail 4 - The examinee draws a line to connect the
numbers 1 through 20 in order . Eleven of the numbers are presented as Arabic
numerals, (e.g., 1, 7); nine numbers are spelled out (e.g., Ten, Four).
Trail 5 - The examinee draws a line to connect in alternating sequence
the numbers 1 through 13 and the letters A through L. The examinee begins with 1
and then draws a line to A, then proceeds to 2, then B, and so on until all the
numbers and letters are connected. Fifteen empty distractor circles appear on
the same page.
The CTMT is standardized on a nationwide sample of 1,664
persons whose demographic characteristics match the United States 2000 census
data. Reliability of scores for each individual trail is high and the composite
score has a reliability coefficient of .90 or higher at all ages.
The
CTMT is extremely sensitive to neurological insult, disease, injury, or
dysfunction, including the subtle neuropsychological dysfunction often present
in individuals with learning disabilities. The Examiner's Manual includes
discussion of the test's theoretical and researched-based foundation,
administration and scoring procedures, and more extensive reliability and
validity data.
| CTMT-COMPLETE
KIT INCLUDES: (B10430) $145.00 |
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| Individual Components: |
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| B10430-A | CTMT-MANUAL | $77.00 |
| B10430-B | CTMT-RECORD BOOKLETS | $65.00 |
Functional
Linguistic Communication Inventory (FLCI)
Essential for
professionals who see moderate and severe dementia patients, the FLCI is a
standardized instrument for evaluating functional communication. Easy to
administer, this test takes approximately 30 minutes and no special training is
required.
Based on years of research, the FLCI is useful in evaluating a
client's abilities in these areas:
greeting and naming; answering
questions; writing; sign comprehension; object-to picture matching; word reading
and comprehension; following commands; pantomime, gesture and conversation.
Determine a client's baseline level of function, the severity of the
patient's dementia, and the client's preserved functional skills. Make
comparisons of examinee's performance to performance profiles of other patients
at different levels of severity.
Information provided by test results is
crucial for MDS reports, writing treatment goals and functional management
plans, discharge summaries, and counseling caregivers.
| FLCI-Complete
kit Includes: (B10210) $310.00 | ||
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Individual Components: | ||
| B10210-A | FLCI-MANUAL |
$100.00 |
| B10210-B | FLCI-OBJECT KIT |
$ 30.00 |
| B10210-C | FLCI-RESPONSE FORMS |
$ 35.00 |
| B10210-D | FLCI-SCORE FORM SHEETS |
$ 19.00 |
| B10210-E | FLCI-STIMULUS BOOK |
$135.00 |
OUR PRICE-$218.00
A proven method for teaching
young children how to produce and combine the oral motor movements necessary to
speak functionally, and intelligibly.
The Kaufman Speech Praxis Treatment
Kit (KSPTK) was developed at the Kaufman Children¹s Center in West Bloomfield,
Michigan, a nationally recognized clinic for children with apraxia of speech.
Simplifying words to make them easier seems to be an effective treatment
approach, but until now, no one has organized and developed a comprehensive
treatment program incorporating successive phonological approximations toward
the production of target words.
The KSPTK is a systematic treatment
program that trains children to simplify word pronunciation patterns, making it
easier for them to communicate. Utilization of this kit also allows the
clinician to introduce more complex phoneme patterns as the child's ability
improves, thus maintaining the child¹s ability to speak at his of her maximum
level.
The KSPTK picture stimuli are appropriate to use with children ages 2-6, though
they can be used with anyone who is having difficulty with articulatory skills
in general, with the exception of children with oralmotor weakness or dysarthria.
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COMPLETE KIT(B8969) $218.00 |
OUR PRICE-$225.00
The KSPT identifies the level of breakdown in a child’s
ability to speak so that treatment can be established and improvement tracked.
Easy to administer and score, the test helps you measure a child’s imitative
responses to the clinician, locates where the child’s speech system is breaking
down, and points to a systematic course of treatment.
Results of the
KSPT are useful beyond establishing an initial diagnosis. Gains in motor-speech
proficiency can be measured and quantified in several ways. Individual sections
of the test can be used to establish treatment goals and measure progress. KSPT
results also can be used to generate Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).
This assessment tool is critical for speech and language pathologists who work
with children in public schools, hospitals, universities, and private practice.
Highlights of the KSPT:
· Items organized from simple to complex
motor-speech movements, using meaningful words whenever possible
· An
imitative, stimulus/response format that can be administered easily without
pictorial stimulation
· Norm-referenced and standardized items that
provide a raw score, a standard score, and a percentile ranking for each part of
the test
· A diagnostic rating scale that assists in delineating
severity levels on a continuum
· Normative information related to the
“normal” speaking population of children and the “disordered”
population
| KSPT-Complete
Kit Includes: (B9027) $225.00 |
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| Individual Components: |
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| B9027-B | KSPT-TEST BOOKLETS (25) | $30.00 |
Test of Verbal
Conceptualization & Fluency (TVCF)
Cecil R. Reynolds, Arthur MacNeill Horton, Jr.
Ages: 8-0 through
89-0
Testing Time: 25 to 30 minutes
Administration: Individual or group
NEW PERFORMANCE MEASURES OF EXECUTIVE FUNTION
The Test of Verbal Conceptualization and Fluency (TVCF) is designed to measure multiple aspects of executive functioning deficits of the brain. It is useful in neuropsychological exams, mainly to detect brain injury and in tracking rehabilitation progress. This is also an invaluable tool in evaluating language functions and verbal ability, and assessing those who may also suffer from language related conceptualization deficits and fluency problems.
The kit has four easy to administer subtests of primarily verbal and nonverbal tasks that emphasize multiple aspects of verbal fluency, set-shifting, and concept identification, along with sequencing and visual search skills. Standardized scores (or scaled scores) are provided in the form of normalized T-scores, along with their accompanying supplementary scores conversions.
Because the TVCF is particularly time and cost-efficient, it is useful in both educational and clinical settings.