Language impairment in Catalan-Spanish bilinguals with Alzheimer’s disease

Language changes in bilingual individuals with Alzheimer's disease

“…() and Gomez‐Ruiz et al . () found similar results when controls and BIAD were compared on phonemic verbal fluency, using the letters ‘F, A, S’ and ‘P, F and K’ respectively. Both studies found that the control group generated significantly more words than the BIAD group.…”

“…() reported no significant difference for verbal fluency between the two languages (Catalan–Spanish) for the control group, but a between language difference was reported for the BIAD group, with the BIAD group generating a greater number of words in their second language (Gomez‐Ruiz et al . ). At first glance the data are suggestive of BIAD showing a greater difficulty in lexical access in their dominant language as a result of AD.…”

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).…”

“…As noted by Gómez-Ruiz et al (2012), there is limited research on language loss in bilinguals with Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias. 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.…”

“…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).…”