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Kaplan, Edith Freund was born on February 16, 1924 in New York City.
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The Boston Naming Test
(The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Drs. ...)
The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Drs. Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disorder. A common and debilitating feature is Anomic aphasia, an impairment in the ability to name objects. The BNT contains 60 line drawings graded in difficulty. Patients with anomia often have greater difficulties with the naming of not only difficult and low frequency objects but also easy and high frequency objects.Naming difficulties may be rank ordered along a continuum. Items are rank ordered in terms of their ability to be named, which is correlated with their frequency. This type of picture-naming test is also useful in the examination of children with learning disabilities and the evaluation of brain-injured adults.
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Boston Naming Test
(This is a tool to be used in assessing the impairment of ...)
This is a tool to be used in assessing the impairment of aphasia, to help clinicians distinguish neurological asphasic syndromes.
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Edith Freund Kaplan
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Edith Freund Kaplan, American neuropsychologist. Recipient Distinguished Service award Massachusetts Speech Hearing Society, 1977, Ezra Saul Psychological Service award Massachusetts Psychological Association, 1984, Distinguished Clinical Neuropsychologist award National Academy Neuropsychology, 1993, Distinguished Contributions award New England Psychological Association, 1996.
Education
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1949; Master of Arts, Clark University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Clark University, 1968.
Career
Research psychologist, VA Medical Center, Boston, 1958-1976;
director neuropsychology services, VA Medical Center, 1976-1987;
neuropsychology consultant, World Health Organisation, Aging Project, Geneva, Switzerland, 1980-1984;
senior neuropsychologist, Framingham (Massachusetts) Heart Study, 1976-1990;
neuropsychology consultant, Franciscan Children's Hospital, Brighton, Massachusetts, 1985-1990;
neuropsychologist, Risk Management Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986-1991;
senior neuropsychologist, Forest Manor Head Injury Center, Middleboro, Massachusetts, 1982-1991;
affiliate professor psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, since 1977;
associate professor neurology, psychiatry, Boston University School Medicine, since 1980. Director Boston Neuropsychol. Foundation, Boston, since 1984.
Member of advisory board National Head Injury Foundation, Boston, 1982-1990 (Recognition of Outstanding Svc.
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Boston Naming Test
(This is a tool to be used in assessing the impairment of ...)
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The Boston Naming Test
(The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Drs. ...)
- Boston naming test scoring booklet
- Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination: Boston Naming Test (Books) by Harold Goodglass (2000-12-01)
- Assessment of Aphasia and Related Disorders by Harold Goodglass (1983-06-01)
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Boston Naming Test
Membership
Fellow American Psychological Association (division 40 president 1987). Member American Board Clinical Neuropsychology (board directors 1981-1987), Academy Aphasia (governing board 1971-1974), International Neuropsychol. Society (president 1980), International Neuropsychology Symposium, World Federation Neurology Research Aphasia Group.
Connections
Daughter of Benjamin and Minnie (Surkes) Freund. Divorced; 1 child, Michael Paul.
