An assessment tool for evaluating cognitive-communicative problems in patients with right hemisphere damage: Preliminary findings.
This article briefly describes the primary characteristics ofthe communication problems associated with right hemisphere damage. It presents a test battery, the RIC Evaluation of Communication Problems in Right Hemisphere Dysfunction-2 (RICE-2; Halper, Burns, Cherney, & Mogil, 1991), that has been developed for this population. Preliminary results of a study to validate the RICE-2 indicate that the tool is sensitive to measuring the differences between nonneurologically impaired individuals and right hemisphere stroke patients. Test scores of individual subjects who are representative of different cognitive-communicative severity levels are presented to illustrate variability in patterns of performance.
a Clinical Researcher Department of Communicative Disorders Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Assistant Professor Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Northwestern University Medical School Chicago , Illinois.
Leora R
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Cherney
b Director, Department of Communicative Disorders Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Associate Professor Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Northwestern University Medical School Chicago , Illinois Clinical Associate Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Northwestern University Evanston , Illinois.
Anita S
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Halper
cognition; communication; evaluation; right hemisphere stroke