Strategic design of protocols to evaluate vision in research on aphasia and related disordersFootnote

This work was supported in part by grant number DC00153‐01A1 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The author wishes to thank Dr Patrick Lavin and Dr Sherry Crawford for expert guidance and training on visual assessment procedures, and Dr Petula Vaz for assistance with visual assessment resources.

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