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participant profiles (see section 5.5 – 5.16). The delayed recall totals for each
participant are presented in Table 5.3 below. Participants were listed according
to their performance in descending order. The raw scores indicate that people
with aphasia could retain information from the newly learned vocabulary three to
five days following training.
Table 5.3
Raw and percentage scores for delayed recall tasks (10 participants)
Participant
Raw score
(total = 320)
Percentage correct
Percentage of
items retained from
Immediate recall
C1 263.5 82 83
C3 210.5 66 80
C2 188 59 66
P3* 169 53 49*
C5 159 50 80
C4 144 45 67
C6 132 41 70
C7 110.5 35 71
C8 102 32 66
C9 56 17.5 74
*as P3 completed the reading aloud and picture-syllable matching in the delayed recall
assessment only (4.6.3), these figures were deducted from his scores in Table 5.2 (i.e.
169 – 16 – 17 / 280) to enable computation of percentage retained from immediate recall.
As with the immediate recall scores there was wide variation in performance,
with the percentage achieved ranging from 17.5% (raw score 56 from a possible
maximum score of 320) to 82% (raw score 263.5 from a possible maximum
score of 320) correct. The percentage of items recalled from immediate recall
assessments was compared with the information recalled from the delayed
recall assessments. The percentage of retained learning ranged from 49% to
83% of information. This indicated that much of this learning was retained from
the training sessions. It was observed that the ranking position of participants in
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