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)
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).
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Comprehensive
Trail-Making Test (CTMT)
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.
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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.
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| B10210-A | FLCI-MANUAL | $120.00 |
| B10210-B | FLCI-OBJECT KIT | $30.00 |
| B10210-C | FLCI-RESPONSE FORMS | $50.00 |
| B10210-D | FLCI-SCORE FORM SHEETS | $40.00 |
| B10210-E | FLCI-STIMULUS BOOK | $200.00 |
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 26, 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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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
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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
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.