Introduction, Major Aims, normative sample, administration time, example

1. BOSTON DIAGNOSTIC APHASIA
EXAMINATION By: Hina Khalid

2. BOSTON DIAGNOSTIC APHASIA
EXAMINATION
Boston oriented towards the presence and type of
aphasia.
Leading to location of brain damage(Goodglass & Kaplan
, 1972).
The BDAE designed for language behaviors and
identification of aphasic syndromes.
It includes auditory comprehension, self initiated &
conversational speech, word retrieval & repetition.
“A short form contains select items from 21 subtests of
the standard form” (Brookshire, 2007).

3. “3 GENERAL AIMS”
Diagnosis of presence & type of aphasic syndrome.
Level of performance.
Assessments of strengths & weaknesses.

4. NORMATIVE SAMPLE
242 Male patients
English speaking
Highly selected.

5. MAJOR RESOURCES :
Booklet
Stimulus cards.
Stimulus cards short form
Examining for aphasia with the BDAE video.

6. CONT:
BDAE is for:
Patients with brain damaged.
Aphasia / non aphasic.
Inpatients/outpatients.

7. Administration Time:
3-5 hours ( 1 hour for short battery).

11. 5 MAJOR SECTIONS
Conversational/ex
pository speech
Writing
Undertsanding
written
language
Oral
expression
Auditory
comprehensi
on