Cross-Language Generalization in an Arabic-English Bilingual Person with Aphasia

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.…”