Description: Clinical assessment of executive function The Hayling and Brixton Tests will be particularly useful in the following situations: -Where the clinician wishes to use an executive test that has been developed on people with specific frontal lobe damage -Where judgements about performance need to be related to estimated pre-morbid levels of cognitive ability -In the assessment of very able people who may find the BADS easy -Where testing time is limited -When monitoring changes over time. Hayling Sentence Completion Test This test is entirely spoken and is thus suitable for people with a wide range of problems such as those involving reading, visual perception or movement. It takes approximately five minutes to administer yet yields three different measures of executive functioning which can be considered separately or combined into an overall score. The Hayling Test consists of two sets of 15 sentences each having the last word missing. In the first section the examiner reads each sentence aloud and the participant has to simply complete the sentences, yielding a simple measure of response initiation speed. In the second section the subject is asked to complete the sentences with a word that does not fit, giving measures of response suppression ability and thinking time.

Series: Hayling and Brixton

Publisher: Pearson Assessment UK

Year Published: 1997

Qualifications: CL2

Grade: Age 18 years and up

Components: Includes manual, stimulus book and a pack of 25 scoring sheets in a bag

Keywords: Psychology; Adult Cognition; Neuropsychology and Language;