Table 3 Linguistic test battery of RATS-3

- ANELT-A: communicative functioning in daily life [7];

- Semi-standardised interview for spontaneous speech rated with Goodglass Aphasia Severity Rating Scale [22];

- Sabadel: connected speech [27];

- ScreeLing: screening of three linguistic components: semantics, phonology and syntax [28];

- Token Test, short version: measures severity of aphasia [21];

- Boston Naming Test: identifies word finding difficulties [29].

Specific semantic tests

- Semantic Association Test, verbal version (SAT) [30];

- Comprehensive Aphasia Test, word comprehension (CAT) [31];

- Semantic Word Fluency [32].

Specific phonological tests

- Nonword repetition, PALPA [33];

- Auditory Lexical Decision, PALPA [33];

- Letter Fluency [34].

General

- Barthel Index: activities of daily life [23];

- Multi-Axial Aphasia System (MAAS) [24];

- Partner ANELT: partner’s perspective on the patient’s communicative functioning [35];

- Self evaluation of communicative functioning on a 0 to10 scale;

- EuroQol: quality of life [36];

- Modified Rankin Scale: activities of daily life [37].