CSD 4850 CLQT Overview

Purpose of CLQT

• Assesses five cognitive domains: attention, memory, language, executive functions, and visuospatial skills in adults with neurological dysfunction.
• Provides an overall measure of cognitive-linguistic function, identifying strengths and weaknesses.
• Results help guide further observations and in-depth assessments rather than serving as a definitive diagnostic tool.

Personal Factors

• Evaluates episodic memory, orientation to time and place, and communication abilities.
• Focus on memory (episodic) and language (word retrieval, comprehension, and production).

Symbol Cancellation

• Designed to assess visual attention, scanning, discrimination, inhibition, and response shifting.
• Evaluates attention and visuospatial skills through visual perceptual tasks.

Confrontation Naming

• Identifies anomia, a common difficulty in retrieving specific words associated with aphasia.
• Focuses on language, specifically semantics and phonology.

Clock Drawing

• Quick assessment tool for tracking spontaneous recovery, rehabilitation progress, or declines due to neurological diseases.
• Sensitive to overall brain function, integrating all cognitive domains.

Clock Drawing: Cognitive Domains Evaluated

• Sustained attention and planning required for a multi-step task.
• Working memory for maintaining task goals and procedural memory.
• Executive functions for planning and monitoring.
• Language skills for understanding instructions and numeric retrieval.
• Visuospatial skills for accurate representation.

Story Retelling

• Assesses working memory for facts in a narrative, auditory processing, and verbal production.
• Evaluates domains including attention, memory (verbal working memory), and language.

Symbol Trials

• Evaluates executive functions such as working memory, planning, and mental flexibility without significant language demands.
• Covers attention, executive functions, and visuospatial skills.

Generative Naming

• Tests ability to systematically search for words based on semantic and phonological rules.
• Requires working memory to remember task rules and previously named words.

Generative Naming: Cognitive Domains Evaluated

• Working memory capabilities.
• Language skills related to semantics and phonology.
• Involvement of executive functions.

Design Memory

• Assesses immediate and working visual memory with minimal reliance on language.
• Target areas include visual attention, visual memory, and visuospatial skills.

Mazes

• Evaluates executive functions with low language demands; requires planning, inhibition of incorrect choices, and error correction.
• Assesses attention and visuospatial abilities.

Mazes: Cognitive Domains Evaluated

• Attention skills.
• Executive functions related to planning and error correction.
• Visuospatial skills.

Design Generation

• Assesses executive skills in creativity, productivity, rapid response variation, self-monitoring, and rule following.
• Minimal language requirements for task completion.

Design Generation: Cognitive Domains Evaluated

• Attention-focused tasks.
• Executive functions related to creativity and monitoring.
• Visuospatial skills for design tasks.