Amalgamating Formal and Informal testing in Aphasia

The current excerpt of this brief communication is to highlight the importance of informal test in the assessment of aphasia that can supplement information elicited from formal tests and can overcome the shortcomings of formal tests. Formal tests on a general note are bound to rules, have time limit and has limited areas of assessment. This could be problematic as we cannot rely on a single test to get the complete picture of the patient’s language abilities, and need to use a test battery of two or more tests. Informal tests could be used as an effective alternative to overcome this and help us in the assessment of aphasia in relatively short period of time.