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Assessments developed at SCORE

Hopkins Auditory Comprehension with Context Assessment (HACCA)

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, including norming data, 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)

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, including norming data, 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.

Kissing & Dancing Test - Short Form

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.

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Language Use Survey from Hopkins (LUSH)

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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Morphosyntactic Generation test (MorGen)

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, including norming data, 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.

New Cookie Theft Scoresheet

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 For additional information, including norming data, and for attribution in research, see:
 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.

New Stimuli for the NIH Stroke Scale

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 For additional information, including norming data, and for attribution in research, see:
 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.

PPA Battery Sentence Reading & Repetition

Shorter and longer sentences for reading and repetition.

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Pyramids & Palm Trees Test - Short Form

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 For additional information, including norming data, and for attribution in research, see:
 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.

Batteries

Post-stroke Neglect Battery

This battery is designed to comprehensively assess visuospatial neglect in individuals after stroke.

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Post-stroke Prosody Battery

This battery is designed to comprehensively assess changes in prosody in individuals after stroke.

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Study Brochures

Longitudinal Imaging of Recovery from Aphasia after Stroke

Producing Increasingly Complex Themes Using Right-hemisphere Engagement

Escitalopram and Language Intervention for Subacute Aphasia

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.2022.102991
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