CLQT Flashcards
What is the citation for the CLQT?
Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT) (Helm-Estabrooks, 2001)
What is the purpose of the CLQT?
It provides an overall measure of cognitive linguistic functioning across five cognitive areas which include attention, memory, executive function, language and visuospatial skills
What scores does the CLQT give?
Cognitive domain score
Severity rating scale (age based)
Qualitative observations
What are the subtests of the CLQT?
Personal facts- please Symbol cancellation- send Confrontation naming- Christmas Clock drawing- carolers Story retelling- so Symbol trails- she Generative naming- gets Design memory- done Mazes- making Design generation- dessert
What does the personal facts subtest measure?
Memory
Language
Episodic memory (personal facts), orientation (time, place, year), and ability to communicate this through language
What does the symbol cancellation subtest measure?
Attention
Visuospatial skills
Helps assess visual attention, scanning, discrimination, inhibition and response shifting within quadrants of a space
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What does the confrontation naming subtest measure?
Language
Helps to document anomia (hallmark of aphasia)
What does the clock drawing subtest measure?
Attention Memory Executive function Language Visuospatial skills
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What does the story retelling subtest measure?
Attention
Memory
Language
Designed to help assess the examinee’s working memory in a story narrative and to assess auditory processing and verbal production skills
What does the symbol trails measure?
Attention
Executive function
Visuospatial skills
Designed to help assess the executive functions of working memory, planning and mental flexibility without placing demands on the language system
What does the generative naming subtest measure?
Memory
Executive function
Language
Helps to evaluate ability to conduct a systematic mental search for words according to specific semantic and phonological rules, as well as to employ working memory skills to remember task rules and words already named
What does the design memory subtest measure?
Attention
Memory
Visuospatial skills
Help to assess the examinee’s immediate/working visual memory with minimal language demands
What does the mazes subtest measure?
Attention
Executive function
Visuospatial skills
Helps assess executive functions while placing minimal demands on the language system. Must plan a course of action, reject/inhibit incorrect choices and correct any mistakes that they make. Also uses attention and visuospatial skills.
What does the design generation subtest measure?
Attention
Executive function
Visuospatial skills
Helps assess executive skills or productivity/creativity, the ability to vary responses rapidly, to self monitor, to remember and follow rules and to develop and use effective strategies. Limited demands on the language system!
What are severity ratings for the CLQT?
Mild, moderate, severe, and WNL
