CLQT Author Is Highly Respected
Neurobehavioral Researcher
About the Author
Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, ScD is a Research Professor in
the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Department of
Allied Health Sciences and the Department of Neurology at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dr. Helm-Estabrooks has authored and co-authored many
journal articles, books, book chapters, and assessment tools.
Her most current book is the Manual of Aphasia and Aphasia
Therapy co-authored with Martin Albert, MD, PhD of the
Harold Goodglass Aphasia Center in Boston with which
Dr. Helm-Estabrooks was affiliated for 32 years. She has published
several standardized tests including the Aphasia Diagnostic Profiles,
the Boston Assessment of Severe Aphasia, the Brief Test of Head
Injury, and the Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test.
In addition to credentials with the American Speech and Hearing
Association, she holds Board Certification with the Academy of
Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences and is
Past President of ANCDS. She received ANCDS Honors in 2005,
ASHA Honors in 2000, and is a Fellow of ASHA.
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Obtain
Quick
Severity Ratings
for Five Cognitive
Domains
with CLQT
Leading neurobehavior researcher and author, Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, ScD, CCC-SLP,
has designed the criterion-referenced Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT) to assist
you in quickly assessing strengths and weaknesses in five cognitive domains (Attention,
Memory, Executive Functions, Language, and Visuospatial Skills). CLQT is for use with adults
ages 18–89 with known or suspected neurological dysfunction. It was field-tested by SLPs,
OTs, and psychologists working with clients in medical and home healthcare settings, acute
rehabilitation facilities, outpatient clinics, and nursing homes, and can be administered in just
15 to 30 minutes.
Ten Tasks Help Identify Pattern of Cognitive Strengths
and Weaknesses
CLQT provides a brief and insightful measure of the status of an individual’s cognitivelinguistic functioning. CLQT’s ten tasks, five of which have minimal language demands, tap
specific cognitive skills within a short time period and with relatively simple administration
and scoring procedures. The Record Form is also available in Spanish.
The Ten Tasks Contributing to the Severity Ratings Are:
Cut Scores Determine
Severity Ratings
CLQT criterion cut scores (Within
Normal Limits, Mild, Moderate,
and Severe) were established for
each cognitive domain based on
the author’s expertise informed
by nonclinical and clinical subjects
representative of different ages,
socioeconomic, cultural, and
educational backgrounds.
The score for each task, except
Clock Drawing, contributes to the
severity rating for one or more of
the five cognitive domains. A Total
Composite Severity Rating for each
age group (18-69, 70-89) is derived
from the severity ratings for each
of the five cognitive domains. A
separate severity rating is obtained
for the Clock Drawing task
for each age group. The Clock
Drawing rating can serve as a quick
monitor of progress or decline.
CLQT Helps You Plan Next Steps
Use CLQT results to identify areas for direct treatment or everyday
management of impaired skills, identify the need for more in-depth
Identify areas for
direct treatment or
everyday management of
impaired skills.
testing, or help determine a differential diagnosis. The manual contains
recommendations for further assessment and gives remediation
suggestions based on CLQT results.
6 The Story Retelling task helps you
to assess the examinee’s working
memory for facts embedded in a
story narrative and to assess
auditory processing and verbal
production skills.
5The Design Generation task helps
you to assess the examinee’s
executive skills of productivity
and creativity, the ability to vary
responses rapidly, to self-monitor,
to remember and follow rules,
and to develop and use effective
strategies, placing minimal
demands on the examinee’s
language skills.
5
In developing the CLQT
CLQT can be
administered in just
15 to 30 minutes.
Record Form, author
Nancy Helm-Estabrooks
included Clinician’s Notes
which provide information
and suggestions to assist
you in administering and
interpreting the tasks.
CLQT is field-tested
by SLPs, OTs,
and psychologists.