Effect of Semantic Naming Treatment on Crosslinguistic Generalization in Bilingual Aphasia

Contact author: Swathi Kiran, CMA 7.206, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712. E-mail: s-kiran{at}mail.utexas.edu PURPOSE: The effect of semantic naming treatment on crosslinguistic generalization was investigated in 3 participants with English–Spanish bilingual aphasia. METHOD: A single-subject experimental designed was used. Participants received semantic treatment to improve naming of English or Spanish items, while generalization was tested to untrained semantically related items in the trained language and translations of the trained and untrained items in the untrained language. RESULTS: Results demonstrated a within- and across-languages effect on generalization related to premorbid language proficiencies. Participant 1 (P1; equal premorbid proficiency across languages) showed within-language generalization in the trained language (Spanish) as well as crosslinguistic generalization to the untrained language (English). Participant 2 (P2) and Participant (P3) were more proficient premorbidly in English. With treatment in English, P2 showed within-language generalization to semantically related items, but no crosslinguistic generalization. With treatment in Spanish, both P2 and P3 exhibited no within-language generalization, but crosslinguistic generalization to English (dominant language) occurred. Error analyses indicated an evolution of errors as a consequence of treatment. CONCLUSIONS: These results are preliminary because all participants were not treated in both languages. However, the results suggest that training the less dominant language may be more beneficial in facilitating crosslinguistic generalization than training the more proficient language in an unbalanced bilingual individual. KEY WORDS: crosslinguistic generalization, bilingual aphasia, naming treatment, language recovery CiteULike     Connotea     Del.icio.us     Digg     Facebook     Reddit     Technorati     Twitter     What's this?.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2006

Erschienen:

2006

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:49

Enthalten in:

Journal of speech, language, and hearing research - 49(2006), 4, Seite 729-748

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Edmonds, Lisa A [VerfasserIn]
Kiran, Swathi [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Aphasia
Aphasia: etiology
Aphasia: physiopathology
Aphasia: therapy
Aphasia - etiology
Aphasia - physiopathology
Aphasia - therapy
Bilingualism
Causes of
Error analysis
Female
Humans
Language Tests
Linguistics
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Multilingualism
National Library of Medicine
Reproducibility of Results
Research
Semantics
Speech Therapy: methods
Speech Therapy - methods
Stroke: complications
Stroke: physiopathology
Stroke - complications
Stroke - physiopathology
Studies
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

doi:

10.1044/1092-4388(2006/053)

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1984066773