Article

Conventional paper-and-pencil tests of unilateral neglect are of limited
ecological validity. To address this issue, a number of assessment procedures
have been proposed to provide clinicians and researchers with more ecologically
valid assessments of unilateral neglect, which may be useful to plan
rehabilitation and to measure the generalization of the effects of rehabilitation
to daily life. We present here an overview of the different assessment measures
available in the literature.
The most widely used scales are the Behavioural
Inattention Test (BIT), the semi-structured scales for assessment of personal and
extra-personal neglect, the Subjective Neglect Questionnaire, the Baking Tray
Task, the wheelchair obstacle course, the ADL-based neglect battery, and the
Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS). The CBS is probably, to date, the most widely used
behavioural assessment instrument for unilateral neglect. It has been found to be
reliable, valid, and sensitive to change during rehabilitation. It also enables
the assessment of awareness
of the consequences of unilateral neglect in daily
life skills.
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