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ERIC Number: EJ962426
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0269-9206
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A Comparison of the BAT and BDAE-SF Batteries in Determining the Linguistic Ability in Greek-Speaking Patients with Broca's Aphasia
Peristeri, Eleni; Tsapkini, Kyrana
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, v25 n6-7 p464-479 Jun 2011
The aim of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the Bilingual Aphasia Test as a measure of language impairment in a Greek-speaking Broca's aphasic population and to investigate relationships with the same aphasic group's performance on the Greek version of the short form of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination battery, mainly focusing on a series of subtests which are shared by the two batteries, yet occasionally differ in content. Correlation analyses showed that the two instruments yielded highly comparable results with respect to the measurement of reading and listening comprehension, as well as in the performance-based measurement of the automated sequence capacity of the patients. Nevertheless, the Bilingual Aphasia Test, as a more extensive battery, proved to be more sensitive and objective in characterizing the patients' language abilities in a number of individual language functions, including commands, sentence repetition, naming, verbal fluency and syntactic comprehension. (Contains 5 tables and 4 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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