Research Article

Syntactic Comprehension in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Table 6

Previous reports of the frequency of syntactic comprehension disorders in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and motor neuron disease.

StudyTestsFrequency

Doran et al. (1995) [8]The test of the reception of grammar (TROG) and the shortened version of the token test 3/5 (60.0%)
Rakowicz and Hodges (1998) [19]The test of the reception of grammar (TROG)5/18 (27.8%)
Cobble (1998) [18]The test of auditory comprehension of sentences (PALPA) 5/9 (55.6%)
Bak et al. (2001) [20]The test of the reception of grammar (TROG) 5/6 (83.3%)
Taylor et al. (2013) [47]The test of the reception of grammar (TROG)18/51 (35.3%)
Current resultsSyntax test for aphasia (STA)18/25 (72.0%)