RT - Journal Article T1 - Reliability and Validity of Bedside Version of Persian WAB (P-WAB-1) JF - BCN YR - 2014 JO - BCN VO - 5 IS - 4 UR - http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-455-en.html SP - 253 EP - 258 K1 - Aphasia K1 - Persian K1 - CVA K1 - Aphasia Quotient K1 - P-WAB1 AB - Introduction: In this study, we reported the reliability and validity of Bedside version of Persian WAB (P-WAB-1) adapted from Western Aphasia Battery (WAB-R)1,2. P-WAB-1 is a clinical linguistic measuring tool to determine severity and type of aphasia in brain damaged patients based on Aphasia Quotient (AQ) as a functional measure. For the purposes of a quick clinical screening of aphasia in Persian, we adapted the bedside version of WAB-R to assess the performance of Persian aphasic patients.  Methods: The data we reported on adaptation, validity and reliability of P-WAB-1 are based on faithful translation and criterion validity ratio (CVR) taken from the expert panel and the performance of 60 consecutive brain damaged patients referred to different university clinics for rehabilitation and 30 healthy subjects as norms and 40 age-matched epileptic patients as the control group.  Results: Based on the results of this study, P-WAB-1 has internal consistency (a=0.71) and test-retest reliability (r=.65 p LA eng UL http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-455-en.html M3 ER -