ABA-2: Apraxia Battery for Adults–Second Edition Barbara L. Dabul

Description Use the Apraxia Battery for Adults–Second Edition (ABA-2) to measure the presence and severity of apraxia in adolescents and adults. The objective scoring system provides the clinician with an initial step toward assessing recovery in relation to severity of apraxia. This individually administered test consists of six subtests that together take about 20 minutes to administer: Diadochokinetic Rate Increasing Word Length Limb Apraxia and Oral Apraxia Latency Time and Utterance Time for Polysyllabic Words Repeated Trials Test Inventory of Articulation Characteristics of Apraxia The ABA-2 has been updated and redesigned. Those features clinicians found useful were preserved, and added features make the test even more effective at detecting the severity of apraxia. More difficult items have been added to two subtests to raise the ceiling so clinicians can identify patients with mild apraxia. Pictures and items have been updated and new normative data were collected i