Greenspan Wendy, Vieira Sonia, Martin Nadine
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Aphasiology. 2024;38(10):1608-1643. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2024.2322770. Epub 2024 Mar 20.
The assessment of aphasia in people with severe deficits is hampered by a paucity of tests that are appropriate for this population and that are sensitive to their underlying linguistic and short-term and working memory (STM/WM) strengths and weaknesses. The Temple Assessment of Language and Short-Term Memory in Aphasia (TALSA) provides a means of assessing people with severe aphasia (PWSA).
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the sensitivity of the TALSA to the underlying linguistic and STM/WM strengths and weaknesses in PWSA. We assessed eight PWSA on selected subtests of the TALSA and found that 1) the TALSA is sensitive to the underlying linguistic and verbal STM/WM abilities of PWSA, 2) the TALSA reveals a wide variety of linguistic and verbal STM/WM profiles in PWSA and, 3) the TALSA can potentially demonstrate common patterns of performance in PWSA.
The TALSA allows researchers to include more PWSA in the study of aphasia and enables clinicians to establish more accurate prognoses, create precisely targeted treatment plans and document incremental progress in therapy.
The TALSA is an important addition to the assessment of severe aphasia. It provides an in-depth evaluation of underlying linguistic and verbal STM/WM strengths and weaknesses of PWSA.
对于存在严重语言缺陷的人群，失语症评估受到限制，因为缺乏适用于该人群且能敏感反映其潜在语言能力以及短期和工作记忆（STM/WM）优势与劣势的测试。失语症语言与短期记忆的坦普尔评估（TALSA）为评估严重失语症患者（PWSA）提供了一种方法。
本文旨在证明TALSA对严重失语症患者潜在语言能力以及STM/WM优势与劣势的敏感性。我们对8名严重失语症患者进行了TALSA部分子测试的评估，发现：1）TALSA对严重失语症患者的潜在语言能力和言语STM/WM能力敏感；2）TALSA揭示了严重失语症患者广泛的语言和言语STM/WM特征；3）TALSA有可能展示严重失语症患者常见的表现模式。
TALSA使研究人员能够在失语症研究中纳入更多严重失语症患者，使临床医生能够制定更准确的预后，制定精准靶向的治疗方案，并记录治疗中的渐进性进展。
TALSA是严重失语症评估的一项重要补充。它对严重失语症患者潜在的语言能力和言语STM/WM优势与劣势进行了深入评估。
