Assessing the Amount of Spontaneous Real-World Spoken Language in Aphasia: Validation of Two Methods.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present the results of a study evaluating the psychometric properties of 2 new measures that exclusively assess the amount of real-world spoken language in patients with aphasia.

Method: Forty individuals with aphasia were evaluated on several measures of spoken language in real-world settings. The Verbal Activity Log (VAL; Johnson et al.

Everyday movement and use of the arms: Relationship in children with hemiparesis differs from adults.

Purpose: In adults with hemiparesis amount of movement of the more-affected arm is related to its amount of use in daily life. In children, little is known about everyday arm use. This report examines the relationships between everyday movement of the more-affected arm and its (a) everyday use and (b) motor capacity in children with hemiparesis.

Network of movement and proximity sensors for monitoring upper-extremity motor activity after stroke: proof of principle.

Objective: To test the convergent validity of an objective method, Sensor-Enabled Radio-frequency Identification System for Monitoring Arm Activity (SERSMAA), that distinguishes between functional and nonfunctional activity.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Laboratory.

Sensor-enabled RFID system for monitoring arm activity: reliability and validity.

After stroke, capacity to complete tasks in the treatment setting with the more-affected arm is an unreliable index of actual use of that extremity in daily life. Available objective methods for monitoring real-world arm use rely on placing movement sensors on patients. These methods provide information on amount but not type of arm activity, e.