Speed and Capacity of Language Processing Test (SCOLP) measures the slowing in cognitive processes experienced by individuals with brain damage.
Speed and Capacity of Language Processing Test
SCOLP
Speed and Capacity of Language Processing Test (SCOLP) measures the slowing in cognitive processes experienced by individuals with brain damage.
- Publication date:
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1992
- Age range:
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16 to 65 years
- Qualification level:
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B
- Forms:
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The Speed of Comprehension Test — Five Forms; The Spot-the-Word Vocabulary Test — Two Forms
- Scoring options:
- Hand-scoring
- Norms:
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Aged-scaled scores and percentile rankings
- Administration Format:
- Paper-and-pencil
SCOLP is particularly useful to neurologists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists. It is sensitive to the effects of closed head injury, normal aging, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and to a wide range of drugs and stressors, including alcohol.
Benefits
- Differentiate between a subject who has always been slow and a subject whose performance has been impaired as a result of brain damage or some other stressor.
- Measure the rate of information processing.
- Brief and easy to administer.
Features
SCOLP consists of two separate measures:
- The Speed of Comprehension Test allows the rate of information processing to be measured.
- The Spot-the-Word Test provides a framework for interpreting the results of the first test.
