Abstract The Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) was introduced to evaluate
pragmatic abilities in patients with cerebral lesions. The battery is organized into five …

The aim of the paper is to present a new clinical instrument for the assessment of
communicative abilities in patients with neuropsychological and psychiatric disorders, due to …

The aim of this paper was to develop and test two equivalent forms of the Assessment
Battery for Communication (ABaCo), a tool for evaluating pragmatic abilities in patients with …

The Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS) test is a new tool
to evaluate pragmatic abilities in clinical populations with acquired communicative deficits …

The aim of the present study was to examine the communicative abilities of traumatic brain
injury patients (TBI). We wish to provide a complete assessment of their communicative …

Background: The field of pragmatic impairments of verbal communication in cerebrally
damaged subjects dates back almost three decades. However, a systematic investigation of …

Groups of aphasic patients and their spouses generated a series of communication
situations that they felt were important in their day-to-day life. Using criteria to ensure that the …

Pragmatic competence comprises a number of interrelated skills which manifest in real-time
in a range of adaptive behaviors and which are driven by underlying cognitive processes …

The study investigated the psychometric characteristics of a Danish adaptation and
translation of the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI). A total of 68 patients with left …

The La Trobe communication questionnaire (LCQ) was designed to measure perceived
communicative ability. It was developed to enable collection of information from various …