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Assessment and Communication for People with Disorders of Consciousness
Published on: August 1, 2017
[A tool to assess functional communication skills and its correspondence with traditional language testing in
A A Surova1, M S Nelyubina1, M V Khudyakova1,2
1National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Objective:
To identify the relationship between speech impairment as measured by the Russian Aphasia Test (RAT) and functional communication as assessed by the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI).
Material And Methods:
RAT and CETI were administered to 87 patients at two time points, before surgery and in 3 months after brain tumor resection surgery.
Results:
There were significant correlations between CETI and the total scores on RAT subtests for speech comprehension and production before surgery but not in the follow-up period.
Conclusion:
The present research is the first to present the Russian version of CETI and to confirm the relationship between speech disorders measured by the comprehensive standardized battery for evaluating speech function RAT and functional communication as measured by CETI.
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