TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY OF 3 APHASIA TESTS - PERFORMANCE OF NON-BRAIN-DAMAGED OLDER ADULTS

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 fo r Aphasia (RCBA) were administered on two separate occasions to 31 non -brain-damaged adults aged 50 to 76 years. The results showed acceptab le score stability for all three aphasia tests. Sixty-eight percent of the time, older non-brain-damaged adults would be expected to score w ithin 4.0% or less of the total number of test items on repeated testi ng. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc.