Comprehensive Aphasia Test

A comparison of errorless and errorful therapies for dysgraphia after stroke

“…Participants were screened on the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT; Swinburn, Porter & Howard, 2004) writing to dictation subtest. A score of between 10% (3/28) and 90% 11 (25/28) of letters correct was required for entry into the study.…”

Comparing uni-modal and multi-modal therapies for improving writing in acquired dysgraphia after stroke

“…JP also had a relatively low score on the CAT copying task (Swinburn et al, 2004), indicating impairment in peripheral writing skills, which can be an indicator of a poor response to writing treatment (Beeson. Rising & Volk, 2003).…”

“…An interesting observation was that where there was flexibility within therapy tasks, participants may often initiate strategies and make proactive use of their processing strengths to find ways of enhancing and maintaining spelling accuracy. CAT: Comprehensive Aphasia Test (Swinburn, Porter & Howard, 2004). *Non-aphasic performance: mean = 32.19 (SD = 11.72), range = 18-66; Post-acute aphasic performance: mean 6.32…”

“…Relative to the other participants she had a low score (18/27) on the copying task on the CAT (Swinburn, Porter & Howard, 2004), also suggesting damage to the peripheral components of writing, i.e. accessing the appropriate allographs (letter shapes) or to the motor programmes responsible for letters being written or typed (Beeson & Rapscak, 2002).…”

“…Potential participants were excluded if they had a severe impairment in reading or auditory comprehension (i.e., in the lower 50% of the aphasic population). These skills were assessed using subtests from the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (Swinburn, Porter & Howard, 2004).…”