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What does WAB stand for?

Western Aphasia Battery


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He was diagnosed with mild agrammatic aphasia on the basis of clinical testing; his Aphasia Quotient on the Western Aphasia Battery was 85.
Some assessments, such as the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) (Kertesz, 1982) or the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1983) purport to assess type and severity of aphasia.
As shown in Table 1, the participant presented with moderate, anomic aphasia, as evidenced by performance on the Western Aphasia Battery [29] and the Porch Index of Communicative Abilities (PICA) [30].
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] As evidenced by his performance on the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) [8] (Aphasia Quotient = 81.
Both were administered a battery of aphasia tests at the initiation of this experiment, including the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) [37], Boston Naming Test (BNT) [38], the Action Naming Test (ANT) [39], portions of the Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia (RCBA) [40], and a Noun/ Verb (NV) Lexical Battery [7].

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