ELA: Everyday Life Activities - Manuals Set 3: Parts A, B and C

ELA is a versitile instrument for the assessment, remediation and/or training of: a. Adults with a language or speech impairment sequel to brain damage (aphasia, i.e. dysphasia, alexia, agraphia, dysarthia, apraxia of speech) b. Children with a delay in language development or a language impairment due to (minimal) brain damage c. Adults or children with other neuropsychological impairments as a sequel t obrain damage (memory disorders, attentional deficits, apraxia, neglect) d. Geriatric persons suffering from dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) or from other syndromes giving rise to dementia. e. Autistic children f. Hearing impaired children and adults g. Persons learning a second or foreign language h. (Pscho-)linguistic evaluation of syntactic abilities of healthy persons and of children in the process of acquiring their first language. ELA can be used effectively by cognitive rehabilitation therapists, (psycho-)linguists, neurolinguists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, occupational therapists, psychologists, special education teachers, speech and language therapists, teachers of English as a foreign language and foreign language teachers.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Part A Acknowledgements Introduction by Audrey Holland, Ph.D., Foreword by Alfonso Caramazza, Ph.D. , Foreword by Wolfgang Dressler, Ph.D. Preface to Set 3 Requirements for qualitative language test and therapy procedures/materials General Description Contents of Sets Linguistic Criteria Areas of Application Types of Tasks I) Activities of Daily Living (ADL), II) Language tasks, III) Cognitive tasks in which nonverbal responses are required Summary of the Types of Tasks Language Therapy Methods and Programmes Sentence Production Task (SPT - 3) Suggestions for Developing a Sentence Comprehension Task Based on Set 3 Stimuli Contents of the Indexes of Set 3 A) Titles of the Picture Sequences B) Main Index According to Semantic Categories C) Alphabetical List of the Depicted Objects D) Alphabetical Index References Summary of the Symbols and Abbreviations used in Set 3 Table of Contents Part B Comments on the Listings in the Alphabetical Index D) Alphabetical Index - Listings Summary of the Symbols and Abbreviations used in Set 3 Part C French Version Set 3 - Christiane Pons, Ph.D., Italian Version Set 3 - Marella Magris, Spanish Version Set 3 - Leena-Louise Martinez Supplement - List of the titles of the sequences

Review :
'ELA allows for the systematic assessment of a patient's ability to process various aspects of lexical, morphological and syntactic structure. The proper use of this test should allow the clinician to detect even hightly specific linguistic deficits. ' - Alfonso Caramazza, from the Foreward to ELA