Psychological Test, Basic Aphasia Status
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker
content: Brooke Army Medical Center
notes: label: Description
content: Brain damage can cause aphasia, that is to say an impairment of language reducing production or understanding of speech and the ability to read and write. In 1947, the Department of Neuropsychiatry of the Medical Field Service School at the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, released this test of “Basic Aphasia Status.” Giving it required six familiar objects – a key, a pencil, a penny, a latch box, scissors, and a comb. Patients first were asked to name each object. The objects were then covered and patients asked to repeat the name after it had been spoken. This happened three times for each object. Patients then was asked to point to an object after the examiner gave the name. Finally, patients were asked to select an object whose name was printed on a card without reading the card aloud.
label: Description
content: The name of the creator of this test is not given. A handwritten note in ink on the upper right of the card reads: Isaacs.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.019
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0034.019
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 20.4 cm x 27 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/32 in x 10 5/8 in