Bedside Evaluation Screening Test-Second Edition (BEST-2)

Joyce F. West ● Elaine Sands ● Deborah Ross Swain

Excellent screening test designed to assess and quantify language disorders in adults afflicted with aphasia. Speech-language pathologists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, and physicians will like this highly efficient and effective tool for assessing communicative modalities. Though quick to administer, the BEST-2 provides as much data and clinical information as longer evaluations.

The BEST-2 assesses language competencies in three language modalities: Auditory Comprehension, Speaking, and Reading. Clinicians who use this test obtain sufficient clinical information to establish treatment goals and objectives for both high and low level patients.

This test has been recently updated and redesigned to provide the busy clinician with an effective and efficient testing instrument for aphasia assessment. The BEST-2 has preserved those features clinicians have found useful and added features that will create clinical superiority. Complete BEST-2 Kit includes Examiner’s Manual, Picture Book, 25 Record Forms, and pad of 25 Profile/Summary Sheets, all in a sturdy storage box (1998).