1st Edition

The Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia

By Michel Paradis, Gary Libben Copyright 1987
258 Pages
by Psychology Press

264 Pages
by Psychology Press

The Bilingual Aphasia Test is a comprehensive language test designed to assess the differential loss or sparing of various language functions in previously bilingual individuals. The individual is tested, separately, in each language he or she previously used, and then in the two languages simultaneously. The testing is multimodal -- sampling hearing, speaking, reading, and writing; and... Read more
Chapter 1 Neurolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingualism; Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundations of the Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia; Chapter 3 Description of the Bilingual Aphasia Test; Chapter 4 Implementation, Scoring Procedures, and Interpretation; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

Biography

McGill University.

"...thoughtfully organized and well written.... The Assessment of Bilingual Aphasia can be highly recommended. Use of the BAT aided by this comprehensive guide will undoubtedly impact very positively on the field of bilingual aphasia and perhaps on normal bilingualism as well."
Applied Psycholinguistics

"...by far the best instrument available for assessing an aphasic person's linguistic competence in two or more languages, and its development and publication are major contributions to aphasiology and to language science."
Contemporary Psychology

"...has inspired me, as no doubt it will other professionals interested from a clinical and academic viewpoint in the patterns of language recovery in patients with more than one language."
Australian Journal of Human Communication Disorders

"...of genuine interest to researchers in the field of linguistics, pragmatics, neurolinguistics, aphasiology, and language therapy."
The Semiotic Review of Books

"In providing comparable tests across many languages, Paradis has contributed an important instrument on which diagnosis, therapy, and research can be based."
Studies in Second Language Acquisition