Multilingual Neuro-speech and language Therapy
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ANAMNESTIC QUESTIONNARE
in persons with POLYGLOTTIC APHASIA
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Bilinguals and, consequently, bilingual people with aphasia can differ greatly from each other in many ways.
In orde to better assess recovery after polyglot aphasia and to offer the most appropriate treatment, it is fundamental to obtain a clear and complete picture of language ability, acquisition age, language use, language switching, and the different interaction contexts in which languages are used (de Bruin, 2019).
To obtain all this information in a structured way, there is a need for a language background assessment tool that provides insight into all relevant variables that influence language processing (Sabourin, Leclerc, Lapierre, Burkholder & Brien, 2016). Based on literature and already existing anamnestic questionnaires, a new anamnestic questionnaire was created by Coppens & Van Brussel (2021). The aim is to be able to easily collect all essential linguistic information through a single document and thus identify the hindering and supporting factors in persons with polyglot aphasia (PWPA).
Bilangual Aphasia Test
All functional, pre-onset mastered languages should be tested and on top of that, each should be tested with an equivalent instrument so that the results obtained are reliable and can be compared (Paradis, 2004).
For these reasons, Paradis developed the BAT in 1994. According to the literature, the BAT is the most widely used test battery in persons with polyglot aphasia (Lorenzen & Murray, 2008).
This digital test is free available and can be printed as a book to use with the client. The BAT takes into account the cultural and linguistic knowledge of each language. Paradis has focused on developing a test in which the corresponding items in another language provide the same information as that of the original item. As a result, the tests may not look alike at first sight, yet be more powerful and valid than a plain translation (Paradis, 2004).
