Cookie Theft Picture Description
Examiner shows the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) Cookie Theft picture (a kitchen scene with an overflowing sink and two children stealing cookies) and asks the participant to describe everything they see. Standard connected-speech elicitation task used to assess narrative production, lexical retrieval, and information content in aphasia, dementia, and progressive language disorders.
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Key references
- Goodglass, H., & Kaplan, E. (1972). The assessment of aphasia and related disorders. Lea & Febiger. (Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination — Cookie Theft picture introduced in the BDAE as a sub-test of conversational/expository speech; revised editions 1983 and 2001.)