title: Test-retest reliability of three aphasia tests: performance of non-brain-damaged older adults.
abstract: This study was designed to assess the test-retest reliability of three aphasia tests. The Auditory Comprehension Test for Sentences (ACTS), the Boston Naming Test (BNT), and the Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia (RCBA) were administered on two separate occasions to 31 non-brain-damaged adults aged 50 to 76 years. The results showed acceptable score stability for all three aphasia tests. Sixty-eight percent of the time, older non-brain-damaged adults would be expected to score within 4.0% or less of the total number of test items on repeated testing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hearing and Speech, School of Allied Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160-7605, USA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Flanagan
authors.forename: S T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results