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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) threatens a large percentage of the elderly population worldwide. Symptoms can also include language and speech difficulties. This article aims at speech/language comprehension difficulties at the sentence level in people with MCI, with the use of a case study. Sentence comprehension was examined in a female patient with amnestic MCI, by means of the Czech version of the Sentence Comprehension Test. Impaired comprehension of all sentence types was found, with a high need for repetition, as well as the influence of sentence complexity. The results show that limited cognitive resources are a reason for insufficient linguistic information processing. Thus, therapy focused on cognitive training will also improve or maintain language.

The article presents "Test porozumění větám", the adapted Czech version of the original Slovak test. The aim of the article is a brief description of the test, the process of adaptation and setting the standards for the Czech version, with some results and discussion. Percentile standards for adults were determined with respect to age (Nohová et al., in preparation). The dia­gnostic tool is used for an in-depth assessment of spoken language comprehension at the sentence level. It contains 48 sentences with various syntactic constructions and linguistic factors. It can be used in a number of patients - in people with aphasia, cognitive-communication disorders and others. Its further use is the subject of follow-up and future research.

The article presents four diagnostic tools for people with communication disorders. It includes The evaluation of pragmatic level of language in children with autism spectrum disorder; a "Sentence Comprehension Test" (Test porozumění větám) designed for children and adults with various diagnoses; "Aphasia Screening Test" (Afaziologický screeningový test) to determine the presence or absence of aphasia; and draft czech version of Intelligibility in Context Scale for children with speech sound disorders. A brief description of the diagnostic tools and some statistical results are provided for each of them.

Aim: To map the sentence comprehension in Slovak-speak ing patients with Parkinson dis ease. Method: We as ses sed the comprehension of reversible sentences (sentences in which the participants of the action can change their roles) with the Test of sentence comprehension and cognitive functions with a standard neuropsychological battery. Subjects: 37 patients with idiopathic Parkinson dis ease and 37 healthy controls participated in the research. Groups did not diff er regard ing age, education and sex. The dia gnosis of Parkinson disease in patients was established by a neurologist. Results: The statistical comparison of data us ing the Man n- Whitney U test revealed that patients had a signifi cantly lower score only in one out of six sentence types (p = 0.016), namely in comprehension of center-embedded object relative clauses (e. g. Mother, which the daughter kis sed, has the light dres s.). They were signifi cantly worse also in decod ing sentences with non-canonical order of thematic roles (fi rst patient, then agent; p = 0.013). Signifi cant cor relations of individual syntactic constructions appeared in three tests: Rey Complex Figure Test, Semantic fl uency and Letter-Number sequencing. Conclusion: Accord ing to our results, there are sentence comprehension defi cits in Slovak-speak ing patients with Parkinson dis ease, while sentence comprehension ability is cor related with cognitive test performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]