Reliability and validity of bedside version of Arabic Diagnostic Aphasia Battery (A-DAB-1) for Lebanese individuals

Al-Thalaya, Zahra; Nilipour, Reza; Ghoreyshi, Zahra Sadat; Pourshahbaz, Abbas; Nassar, Zahraa; Younes, Mahmoud

doi:10.1080/02687038.2017.1338661

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“…The expert judges were asked to determine whether the stimuli were representative and consistent with the goals of the instrument (Mohajan, 2017;Zamanzadeh et al, 2015). The CVR was used to measure inter-rater agreement and determine the extent to which an item was considered essential for the test, as has been done in previous studies (Al-Thalaya et al, 2017;Keske-Soares, 2018). Previous instrument adaptation studies which used Gwet's firstorder agreement coefficient (AC1) found that values over 0.70, such as those obtained in the present study, are indicative of satisfactory agreement between raters (Bukenya et al, 2017;Erivan et al, 2019).…”

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Brief Montreal-Toulouse Language Assessment Battery: adaptation and content validity

Altmann

Ortiz

Benfica

et al. 2020

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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Background Evaluating patients in the acute phase of brain damage allows for the early detection of cognitive and linguistic impairments and the implementation of more effective interventions. However, few cross-cultural instruments are available for the bedside assessment of language abilities. The aim of this study was to develop a brief assessment instrument and evaluate its content validity. Methods Stimuli for the new assessment instrument were selected from the M1-Alpha and MTL-BR batteries (Stage 1). Sixty-five images were redesigned and analyzed by non-expert judges (Stage 2). This was followed by the analysis of expert judges (Stage 3), where nine speech pathologists with doctoral training and experience in aphasiology and/or linguistics evaluated the images, words, nonwords, and phrases for inclusion in the instrument. Two pilot studies (Stage 4) were then conducted in order to identify any remaining errors in the instrument and scoring instructions. Results Sixty of the 65 figures examined by the judges achieved inter-rater agreement rates of at least 80%. Modifications were suggested to 22 images, which were therefore reanalyzed by the judges, who reached high levels of inter-rater agreement (AC1 = 0.98 [CI = 0.96–1]). New types of stimuli such as nonwords and irregular words were also inserted in the Brief Battery and favorably evaluated by the expert judges. Optional tasks were also developed for specific diagnostic situations. After the correction of errors detected in Stage 4, the final version of the instrument was obtained. Conclusion This study confirmed the content validity of the Brief MTL-BR Battery. The method used in this investigation was effective and can be used in future studies to develop brief instruments based on preexisting assessment batteries.

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Section: Nonverbal Praxismentioning

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Brief Montreal-Toulouse Language Assessment Battery: adaptation and content validity

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Ortiz

Benfica

et al. 2020

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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“…Previous studies have indicated that the early commencement of supervised rehabilitation of PWA leads to a faster recovery [ 3 ]. Aphasia is commonly assessed manually with one of the well-known assessment tools, such as the Chinese Rehabilitation Research Center Aphasia Examination (CRRCAE [ 4 ]), for Chinese-dialect-speaking patients), the Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT [ 5 ]), for German-speaking patients, the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE [ 6 ]), for English-speaking patients, and the Arabic Diagnostic Aphasia Battery (A-DAB [ 7 ]), for Lebanese-Arabic speaking patients. Typically, these tests (referred to as batteries) assess the language function, content, fluency, auditory comprehension, repetition, naming, writing, and calculation.…”

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A Comparative Investigation of Automatic Speech Recognition Platforms for Aphasia Assessment Batteries

Mahmoud

Pallaud

Kumar

et al. 2023

Sensors

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The rehabilitation of aphasics is fundamentally based on the assessment of speech impairment. Developing methods for assessing speech impairment automatically is important due to the growing number of stroke cases each year. Traditionally, aphasia is assessed manually using one of the well-known assessment batteries, such as the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), the Chinese Rehabilitation Research Center Aphasia Examination (CRRCAE), and the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE). In aphasia testing, a speech-language pathologist (SLP) administers multiple subtests to assess people with aphasia (PWA). The traditional assessment is a resource-intensive process that requires the presence of an SLP. Thus, automating the assessment of aphasia is essential. This paper evaluated and compared custom machine learning (ML) speech recognition algorithms against off-the-shelf platforms using healthy and aphasic speech datasets on the naming and repetition subtests of the aphasia battery. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) are the customized ML algorithms, while Microsoft Azure and Google speech recognition are off-the-shelf platforms. The results of this study demonstrated that CNN-based speech recognition algorithms outperform LDA and off-the-shelf platforms. The ResNet-50 architecture of CNN yielded an accuracy of 99.64 ± 0.26% on the healthy dataset. Even though Microsoft Azure was not trained on the same healthy dataset, it still generated comparable results to the LDA and superior results to Google’s speech recognition platform.

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“…In Jordan for example, there is the Bilingual aphasia test, BAT, (Paradis & El Halees, 1989) in Arabic-Jordanian/Levantine dialect. Likewise, in Lebanon, there is the development of the bedside version of the Arabic diagnostic aphasia battery (A-DAB-1) in Arabic-Lebanese/Levantine dialect (Al-Thalaya et al, 2017). Also, in Egypt there are two assessments: the Kasr El-Aini Arabic Aphasia Test, KAAT, (Hassanein et al, 2002), and there is progress in developing a cross culturally adapted version of CAT for Arabic-Egyptian dialect speakers (Abou El-Ella et al, 2013).…”

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From informal to formal: the preliminary psychometric evaluation of the short aphasia test for Gulf Arabic speakers (SATG)

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Reliability and validity of bedside version of Arabic Diagnostic Aphasia Battery (A-DAB-1) for Lebanese individuals

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References 22 publications

Brief Montreal-Toulouse Language Assessment Battery: adaptation and content validity

Brief Montreal-Toulouse Language Assessment Battery: adaptation and content validity

A Comparative Investigation of Automatic Speech Recognition Platforms for Aphasia Assessment Batteries

From informal to formal: the preliminary psychometric evaluation of the short aphasia test for Gulf Arabic speakers (SATG)

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