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The Multilingual Aphasia Examination (MAE) (3rd edition; 1994) was designed to “evaluate the presence, severity, and qualitative aspects of aphasic disorders” (Benton et al. 1994). The MAE contains 11 subtests in five categories: Oral Expression (I. Visual Naming, II. Sentence Repetition, and III. Controlled Oral Word Association), Spelling (IV. Oral Spelling, V. Written Spelling, and VI. Block Spelling), Oral Verbal Understanding (VII. MAE Token Test, VIII. Aural Comprehension of Words and Phrases), Reading (IX. Reading Comprehension of Words and Phrases), and Rating Scales(X. Rating of Articulation and XI. Rating of Praxis Features of Writing). Subtests in the categories of Oral Expression, Spelling, Oral Verbal Understanding, and Reading are scored for accuracy of individual items. Some subtests (i.e., Visual Naming) use a 3- point scoring system (0-1-2) to represent the level of correct response on an item; the score for the subtest is the sum for all...
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Patterson, J.P. (2018). Multilingual Aphasia Examination. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_900
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