Boston Assessment of Severe Aphasia (BASA)

Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, Gail Ramsberger, Alisa R. Morgan, and Marjorie Nicholas

Quickly identify and quantify the spared language abilities of clients with severe impairments in comprehension and production of language long before other measures are appropriate-even at bedside. Immediate treatment planning that uses the strongest response modalities with stimuli that elicit the most communicative responses.

Administered in 20 to 30 minutes; provides baseline; scores both verbal and nonverbal responses, and tests auditory comprehension, praxis, oral/gesture expression, reading comprehension, gesture recognition, writing and visual-spatial skills.

Examiner's manual, stimulus cards, maniuplative set, custom clipboard, 25 record forms, carrying case.