Psychology: Research and Review
Table 2 Description of Brief MTL-BR tasks
From: Brief Montreal-Toulouse Language Assessment Battery: adaptation and content validity
Tasks | Objective | Items |
|---|---|---|
Directed interview | Assess oral expression and comprehension. | Contains 9 open questions. |
Auditory comprehension | Measures spoken word and sentence comprehension, by asking participants to identify a picture corresponding to the named stimulus. | The task contains 11 items, consisting of 5 words, 3 simple sentences, and 3 complex sentences. Words items are presented one at a time and accompanied by six stimuli each, namely, a correct target image, a phonemic distractor, a semantic distractor, a visual distractor, and two neutral images. |
Written comprehension | Assesses the ability to identify images corresponding to written words and sentences. | The task contains 11 items and includes 5 words, 3 simple sentences, and 3 complex sentences. The words stimuli are presented one at a time and accompanied by 6 pictures each, namely, a correct target image, a phonemic distractor, a semantic distractor, a visual distractor, and two neutral images. |
Sentence copying | Assesses the ability to recognize and reproduce letters. | The task is composed of one 4-word sentence. |
Writing to dictation | Assesses the ability to comprehend auditory input and find the corresponding written representation. | The task contains 4 words (regular, irregular, and pseudowords) and 1 sentence. |
Repetition | Assesses the ability to verbally reproduce spoken words and sentences. | The task contains 6 words (regular, irregular, and pseudowords) and 1 sentence. |
Reading | Investigates the ability to recognize letters and respond with the corresponding phoneme. | The task contains 8 words (regular, irregular, and pseudowords) and 1 sentence. |
Naming | Assesses the ability to name pictures of nouns and verbs. | A total of 12 images are individually presented, depicting 9 nouns and 3 verbs. |
Automatic speech | Assesses the ability to produce automatic series. | Numbers and music Happy Birthday, |
Nonverbal praxis | Assesses the ability to produce isolated gestures and movement sequences involving the face and tongue, following instructions by the examiner. | The task is composed of 6 items. |