Development of a multilingual aphasia battery: Progress and problems

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The development and present status of a proposed multilingual aphasia examination are described. A selection of tests has been made and these are in various stages of development. Firm arrangements for securing adequate samples of normal and brain-damaged subjects in clinics and school systems in France, Germany, Italy and the United States have been concluded. A major problem which was encountered is that of formulating a sufficiently precise definition of standardization groups of patients with cerebral disease. This problem has been met by establishing “reference” groups of patients with unilateral cerebral disease on the basis of explicit neurological criteria of a non-linguistic nature without reference to the circumstance of whether or not the patients have been classified as “aphasic”.

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Presented at a meeting of the Research Group on Aphasiology of the World Federation of Neurology, Philadelphia, 3 October, 1968.

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