Boston_Naming_Test
Boston Naming Test
Psychological assessment tool
The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by 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.[1] A common and debilitating feature is anomic aphasia, an impairment in the ability to name objects.[2] The BNT contains 60 line drawings graded in difficulty.[2] 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.[3] 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.[3]