Testing in clinical practice: a qualitative study combining interaction analysis of testing situations and therapists' reflections on testing the person with aphasia
How is aphasia assessment carried out in practice? how are standardized test procedures transformed into situated interactions between a speech-language therapist and a person with aphasia? What are the concerns of therapists when testing? Research has focused on the reliability and validity of standardized aphasia tests or on development of new model-based tests (Spreen and Risser, 2003), but less attention has been given to the implementation of testing procedures in face-to-face interaction with clients
