BATting multilingual primary progressive aphasia for Greek, English, and Czech

Prophylactic treatments for anomia in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia: cross-language transfer

“…As a result, the level of generalizability of positive treatment effects to other individuals remains unclear. Furthermore, no treatment studies involving bilingual or multilingual individuals with PPA have been reported previously, although the language deficits of these individuals have been described in the literature (Druks & Weekes, 2013; Filley et al, 2006; Hernandez et al, 2008; Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2012; Larner, 2012; Liu, Yip, Fan, & Meguro, 2012; Machado, Rodrigues, Simoes, Santana, & Soares-Fernandes, 2010; Zanini, Angeli, & Tavano, 2011). The current study is a valuable contribution, as it expands the PPA literature to include a Norwegian-English bilingual individual, and it is the first study to examine cross-language transfer of treatment effects in bilingual PPA.…”

Language intervention in French–English bilingual aphasia: Evidence of limited therapy transfer

“…Thus, for example, on the lexical-semantic tasks, lexical items and pictures that are appropriate to the particular language community are used. The BAT has proved to be an efficacious assessment tool in clinical and research contexts for bilingual aphasia, dementia and in assessing language recovery and treatment effects (see, for example, Abutalebi et al, 2009;Edmonds & Kiran, 2006;Filiputti et al, 2002;Gómez Ruiz, 2008;Gómez-Ruiz & Alguilar-Alonso, 2011;Goral et al, 2010;Hinckley, 2003;Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2011;Kiran & Roberts, 2010;Knoph, 2010;Miertsch et al, 2009). In this study the BAT was utilised to compare change in each language on the individual subtests, the specific linguistic domains (lexical-semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology), and the extent of overall change in each language.…”

Assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia and dementia using the Bilingual Aphasia Test

“…Two articles address language impairment in bilingual and multilingual individuals with dementia, either Alzheimer's Disease (Gómez-Ruiz, Alguilar-Alonso, & Espasa, 2012) or primary progressive aphasia (Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2012). Language performance in a multilingual individual with a left prefrontal tumour is investigated in one article (Lubrano, Prod'homme, Démonet, & Köpke, 2012).…”

“…The two articles in this special issue that focus on patterns of language impairment in bilingual and multilingual individuals with dementia (Gómez-Ruiz et al, 2012;Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2012) thus provide important contributions to this much-needed area of research. Comparison of performance across languages, particularly those that are structurally dissimilar are of importance to our understanding of language representation in bilingual and multilingual individuals, both post-stroke and pre-surgery, as the significant contributions made by three articles in this special issue show (Lubrano et al, 2012;McCann et al, 2012;Venkatesh et al, 2012).…”

“…Literacy skills and education levels can vary dramatically, the issue of dialect versus language distinction, and self-rated proficiency in a language not spoken over many years all impact on bilingual language function. Consequently, the apparently simple classification of languages as L1, L2, etcetera may not be straightforward, as noted by Kambanaros & Grohmann (2012) and by McCann et al (2012).…”