Influence of brain lesion and educational: background on language tests in aphasic subjects

• Autor(a) principal: Soares,Ellen Cristina Siqueira
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Ortiz,Karin Zazo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Dementia & Neuropsychologia
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642008000400321
• topic: language; aphasia; language test

Abstract In language assessment, several socio-demographic variables must be taken into account. Objectives: To characterize the performance of aphasic patients with different educational background on language tasks and to compare their performance to that of individuals with no language disorders. Methods: Thirty aphasic patients and 30 healthy individuals were selected. Patients were divided into two groups according to educational level: A (1-4 years) n=15 and B (5-11 years) n=15. Age ranged from 27 to 78 years. All subjects were submitted to the Montreal Toulouse language assessment protocol. The pertinent statistical tests were applied. Results: Educational level interfered in the linguistic performance of normal subjects but not in that of aphasic subjects, whose performance was influenced more by the lesion. Conclusions: The present study can contribute toward greater understanding of the influence of lesions and educational background on the language performance of aphasic subjects.