Abstract
An attempt was made to develop an objective and complete scoring procedure for describing the spontaneous speech of aphasia patients. A factor analysis performed on 30 items produced six significant factors: Fluency, Telegraphic Speech, Grammatical Errors, Articulation, Verbal Paraphasia, and Empty Speech. Of these, Fluency was by far the most important. A classification of patients into fluent and nonfluent types could be made on the basis of two variables, Speech Tempo and Mean Length of Utterance. Suggestions are made concerning the items which should be included in a shortened scoring procedure.
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