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What Cognistat Tests

What Cognistat Does:
Assesses intellectual functioning in five areas

For:
Ages 12 years and older

Administration:
Individual

Time:
10 minutes for cognitively intact clients; 20-30 minutes for those who are cognitively impaired

Cognistat will rapidly assess neurocognitive functioning in five major ability areas:

  • Language
  • Constructional ability
  • Memory
  • Calculation skills
  • Reasoning/judgment

Language has four separate subsections. This makes it possible to rapidly identify major aphasic syndromes: Spontaneous speech, Comprehension, Repetition, and Naming.

Reasoning has two subsections: similarities and judgment.

Except for memory, each section is given in an efficient screen and metric paradigm. This ensures that unnecessary time is not spent testing areas that are intact, while areas of impairment are explored in some detail. The more general areas of level of consciousness, orientation, and attention are assessed independently.

 
Did You Know?
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In a recent survey, Rabin, Barr and Burton found that Cognistat was among the 20 most widely used test instruments employed by neuropsychologists in the United States and Canada.
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