Pearson - Clinical and Talent Assessment - Australia and New Zealand

This test determines the degree to which a subject can access meaning from pictures and words. Information from the test will enable the tester to establish whether a subject’s diffi culty in naming or pointing to a named picture is due to
a diffi culty in retrieving semantic information from pictures, or a difficulty in retrieving semantic information from words, or, in the case of a naming failure, a difficulty in retrieving the appropriate spoken form of the word.

Six different versions of the test are possible by using either pictures, written or spoken words to change the modality of stimulus or response items. The pattern of results can be used to build up a picture of the subject’s ability to access
semantic and conceptual information. These may indicate whether a subject has a central, modality-independent impairment to semantic knowledge, or whether there are modality-specific difficulties in access to semantics.

The test is short and easily administered, and provides essential information for evaluation of semantic disorders, and may help in the design of appropriate rehabilitation programmes.