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Story Recall Test
The Story Recall Test used to be known as the Auditory Comprehension Test
(Green & Kramar, 1983), as described in Muriel Lezak's textbook.
It consists of 30 short stories, which were recorded in a professional
studio and which are now available in digital form. The stories can be
played via a computer speakers or headphones.
On the recommendation of Dr. Lezak many years ago, the test was broken down
into six sets of five stories each and each set is equivalent to every other
set.
It is important to use more than one or two
stories to get a reliable measure of immediate or delayed story recall. Five
stories was found to be the minimum needed for reliability. Those with
impaired immediate story recall tend to have unusually large fluctuations
from one story to another and it is easy to miss deficits in story recall if
only one or two stories are used.
In a sample of 125 children with various
learning disabilities, 50% were impaired in immediate story recall on the
SRT. That is, they scored in the bottom 5% relative to 132 healthy non LD
children.
