Aphasia Evaluation ( Minimum Verbal Performance )

This test is freely offered for translation and scientific research and aims at the conceptual renewal and at the technical improvement in the topic, through a more operative and objective multi centric approach. The Brief Aphasia Evaluation (BAE) was designed to detect the basic resources of verbal communication in the aphasic patient, so as to begin, after that, with a more complete and better organized neuropsychological or language evaluations. BAE is part of the battery of “Neuropsychological tests abbreviated and adapted to Spanish – speakers” (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15284958?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed _ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) and has been developed and based on its own objectives, that is, independently of what has been proposed in other aphasia screening tests available in the market. The test must be administered only to people with important linguistic difficulties. 1 By means of this technique, not only is the performance on a series of tasks involving basic abilities for verbal communication explored but the patient is also cognitively stimulated. This proposal does not intend to replace the theoretical and technical perspective of the professional involved, but simply to complement it.