Right Hemisphere Assessment

Question 1

Areas to address in a Comprehensive Evaluation

Answer 1

Discourse
Pragmatic Behavior
Prosody
Neglect
Attention
Affective Processing

Question 2

Areas to address in a Comprehensive Evaluation

Also look at what two things?

Answer 2

Dysarthria & Dysphagia

Question 3

Testing Options - Initial screening

Answer 3

-Interview
-Scene Interpretation
-Neglect:
~Cancellation
~Drawing
~Line Bisection

Question 4

Testing Options

Answer 4

Formal Tests of:
~Discourse deficits
~Neglect
~Attention
~Prosody
~Affective Communication

Question 5

Evaluation of Right-Hemisphere (tests)

Answer 5

~Rehab. Institute of Chicago 
   Evaluation of communication  
   Problems  in Right  
    Hemisphere Dysfunction 
    (RICE)
~Mini –Inventory of Right Brain  
   Injury (MIRBI)
~Burns Brief Inventory of 
   Communication and Cognition, 
~Rivermead Behavioral Memory 
   Test
~Ross Information Processing 
    Assessment, 2nd Ed. (RIPA-2), 
~Woodcock-Johnson 
   Psychoeducational Battery 
   Revised

Question 6

Other Evaluation Tools?

Answer 6

~Prutting Pragmatic Protocol, 
~Ross Prosody Evaluation
~Verbal & Nonverbal Cancellation Test 
~Behavioral Inattention Test
~Test of Visual Field Attention, 
~Test of Everyday Attention
~Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity, 
~Studies of interference in serial 
   verbal reactions.
~Factors affecting speed in 
   serial verbal reactions

Question 7

Communication/Swallowing Tests for dysarthria?

Answer 7

~Franchay Dysarthria 
   Assessment 
~Assessment of Intelligibility 
   of Dysarthric Speech
~Traditional adult-adolescent 
   articulation tests

Question 8

Communication/Swallowing Tests for Dysphagia?

Answer 8

-Videofluoroscopy/Modified   
   Barium Swallow
-Fiberoptic Assessment (FEES)
-Informal Clinical/Bedside 
   evaluation