Downloads
Assessments developed at SCORE & Other Downloads
- Hopkins Auditory Comprehension with Context Assessment (HACCA)
- Hopkins Action Naming Assessment (HANA)
- Kissing & Dancing Test - Short Form
- Language Use Survey from Hopkins (LUSH)
- Modern Cookie Theft
- Morphosyntactic Generation test (MorGen)
- NIH Stroke Scale Stimuli
- Noun and Verb Oral and Written Naming
- Pyramids & Palm Trees Test - Short Form
- Sentence Reading & Repetition
- Clinical Batteries
- Study Brochures
- Data
Hopkins Auditory Comprehension with Context Assessment (HACCA)
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The HACCA is designed to assess a patient's ability to comprehend brief discourse (1-3 sentences) and simple commands with varying levels of contextual support. It is currently in development at the SCORE lab. Click in the center of the slide for the auditory stimulus.
Materials For additional information and for attribution in research, see:
Tilton-Bolowsky, V., Durfee, A. Z., Bunker, L. D., & Hillis, A. E. (2024). Emotional Prosody and Facial Expressions Differentially Augment Comprehension of Discourse for Left and Right Hemisphere Stroke Survivors. Stroke, 55(Suppl_1), A123-A123. Hopkins Action Naming Assessment (HANA)
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The HANA is a verb naming assessment that consists of 30 black and white images of actions. The items are matched in frequency and length to the 30-item version of the Boston Naming Test (Mack et al., 1992).
Materials For additional information and for attribution in research, see:
Breining, B. L., Faria, A. V., Caffo, B., Meier, E. L., Sheppard, S. M., Sebastian, R., ... & Hillis, A. E. (2021). Neural regions underlying object and action naming: complementary evidence from acute stroke and primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology, 1-29.
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Kissing & Dancing Test - Short Form
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The Kissing & Dancing Test 15-item Short Form is brief assessment targeting the semantic association of verbs based on the full Kissing & Dancing Test (Bak & Hodges, 2003). The short form has been used many times in the SCORE lab, but separate norming data have not been published.
Materials- Scoresheet
- Stimuli (provided with permission)
Language Use Survey from Hopkins (LUSH)
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The LUSH is designed to determine pre-injury use of written and spoken language, to determine if this variable influences recovery of language after stroke. It can be completed by the individual who has had stroke (“the patient”) or by a family member or close friend if the patient has current language difficulties.
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An updated, colorful, and more “politically correct” version of the Cookie Theft picture recently was produced by Miro, and included additional events (e.g., dog eating cookies from the floor, cat chasing birds in the lawn, mother mowing over flowers while talking on her cell phone).
Materials- Scoresheet
- Stimulus available from Miro
Berube, S., Nonnemacher, J., Demsky, C., Glenn, S., Saxena, S., Wright, A., ... & Hillis, A. E. (2019). Stealing cookies in the twenty-first century: Measures of spoken narrative in healthy versus speakers with aphasia. American journal of speech-language pathology, 28(1S), 321-329. ^ Back to TopMorphosyntactic Generation test (MorGen)
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The MorGen is an assessment designed to probe differential production of high-frequency nouns, proper names, modifiers, and bound inflectional morphemes. It consists of a training phase and a feedback-free 60-item response phase using 6 high-frequency nouns.
Materials For additional information and for attribution in research, see:
Stockbridge MD, Matchin W, DeLuque E, et al. Mary has a little chair: Eliciting noun-modifier phrases in individuals with acute post-stroke aphasia. Aphasiology. 2023:1-19. doi:10.1080/02687038.2023.2233739. Link.
Stockbridge MD, Matchin W, Walker A, et al. One cat, two cats, red cat, blue cats: eliciting morphemes from individuals with primary progressive aphasia. Aphasiology. 2021/12/02 2021;35(12):1611-1622. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1852167. Link.
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NIH Stroke Scale Stimuli
Updated stimuli for use with the NIH Stroke Scale were developed in collaboration with Patrick Lyden and Apex Innovations, LLC. These stimuli were normed on a multinational sample of English speakers. Data collection among stroke survivors is ongoing.
Materials- Precarious Painter picture description stimulus
- Object naming stimuli
- Picture content scoresheet (Excel)
- Picture content scoresheet (Printable)
- Healthy control data
Stockbridge MD, Kelly L, Newman-Norlund S, White B, Bourgeois M, Rothermel E, Fridriksson J, Lyden PD, Hillis AE. New picture stimuli for the NIH stroke scale: a validation study. Stroke. 2024 Feb;55(2):443-51.
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Noun and Verb Oral and Written Naming
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Noun and Verb Oral and Written Naming stimuli include objects and actions taken from a set of black-and-white illustrations described by Zingeser and Berndt. Items were selected for high agreement. They may not be words that are both nouns and verbs. Half of the nouns were matched to the “base frequency” of the verbs (frequency of the stem), and half were matched to the “cumulative frequency” of the verbs (frequency of any form of the verbs, such as follow, following, followed). Names were also matched across word class for number of syllables. All stimuli have high imageability.
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For additional information and for attribution in research, see:
Lambert MA, Stockbridge MD, Kelly L, Diaz-Carr I, Neal V, Hillis AE. Distinguishing Among Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia with a Brief Multimodal Test of Nouns and Verbs. Brain Sciences. 2025 Oct 15;15(10):1108.
Stockbridge MD, Tippett DC, Breining BL, Vitti E, Hillis AE. Task performance to discriminate among variants of primary progressive aphasia. Cortex. 2021 Dec 1;145:201-11. ^ Back to Top
Pyramids & Palm Trees Test - Short Form
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The Pyramids & Palm Trees Test 14-item Short Form is brief assessment targeting the semantic association of nouns based on the full Pyramids & Palm Trees Test (Howard & Patterson, 1992).
Materials- Scoresheet
- Stimuli are available from Pearson Assessments
Breining, B. L., Tippett, D. C., Davis, C., Posner, J., Sebastian, R., & Oishie, K. Assessing dissociations of object and action naming in acute stroke. 2015. b. In Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Monterey, CA.
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Sentence Reading & Repetition
Shorter and longer sentences for reading and repetition.
Materials For additional information and for attribution in research, see:
Stockbridge MD, Tippett DC, Breining BL, Vitti E, Hillis AE. Task performance to discriminate among variants of primary progressive aphasia. Cortex. 2021 Dec 1;145:201-11.
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Post-stroke Neglect Battery
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This battery is designed to comprehensively assess visuospatial neglect in individuals after stroke.
Materials Post-stroke Prosody Battery
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This battery is designed to comprehensively assess changes in prosody in individuals after stroke.
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Batteries
Study Brochures
Deidentified data from papers
Bunker LD, Walker A, Meier E, Goldberg E, Leigh R, Hillis AE. Hyperintense vessels on imaging account for neurological function independent of lesion volume in acute ischemic stroke. Neuroimage Clin. 2022;34:102991. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2022.102991Click to download
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