Patterson Medical SCCAN: Scales of Cognitive and Communicative Ability for Neurorehabilitation

The SCCAN kit assesses cognitive-communicative deficits and functional ability of patients in rehabilitation hospitals, clinics and skilled nursing facilities. Appropriate for a broad range of neurological patients, SCCAN provides a measure of impairment and functional ability, and can be administered in 30 minutes. Also beneficial for speech language pathologists, neuropsychologists, psychologists and related rehabilitation professionals.

The SCCAN's main uses are to identify patients with neurocognitive and communicative impairment, to determine the severity of the impairment and to help establish appropriate treatment plans. Contents relate to daily activities that adults would be expected to perform for independent living with scales and a total score for oral expression, orientation, memory, speech comprehension, reading comprehension, writing, attention and problem solving.