Handout: Wernicke’s Aphasia

This tool will guide you to write functional and appropriate goals for your all of your patients. Additionally, it’s helpful for new patient evaluations to help SLPs get a quick and accurate baseline of cognitive-communication skills.

Includes a case history and prior level of function form, assessment subsections in the domains listed below, stimulus forms, directions, and scoring sheet.

Assessment subsections also include:

• Case history (HPI, PLOF – living setting, assistance level, daily cog demands)
• Auditory comprehension (Pointing, Yes/No questions, 1-, 2-, and complex commands, conversation)
• Verbal expression (Automatic speech, phrase completion, repetition, confrontational/divergent/convergent/responsive naming, sentence formulation)
• Written expression (Words, personal info, functional messages, clock drawing)
• Reading comprehension (Recognition, word/phrase to picture matching, paragraph comp, functional reading)
• Cognition (immediate/delayed/recent/distant memory, functional money management/calculating coins/making change, problem solving/safety awareness, sequencing, organization, orientation)