An analysis of descriptions by Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia.
Background: Description tasks are used to evaluate and investigate the production abilities of people with language impairments such as aphasia. Aims: The goal of the present study is to investigate the production abilities of Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia (IWA), as well as a smaller sam...
| Published in: | Aphasiology Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 389 - 412 |
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| Format: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=191136653&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 191136653 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 02687038 B6J jtl: Aphasiology issn: 02687038 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2026 vid: 40 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 191136653 180983396 191136653 191136653 10.1080/02687038.2024.2428424 191136653 ppf: 389 ppct: 23 formats: tig: atl: An analysis of descriptions by Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia. aug: au: Salmons, Io Muntané-Sanchez, Helena Gavarró, Anna affil: Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain sug: subj: Aphasia Cognition Disorders Catalans Psychosocial Factors Speech Production Measurement Language Tests Task Performance and Analysis Language Disorders Diagnosis Human Male Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Spain Persons with Disabilities Comparative Studies Cross Sectional Studies Medical Records Nonparametric Statistics Psychological Tests Mann-Whitney U Test Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Communication Skills Grammar Funding Source Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Background: Description tasks are used to evaluate and investigate the production abilities of people with language impairments such as aphasia. Aims: The goal of the present study is to investigate the production abilities of Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia (IWA), as well as a smaller sample of individuals with cognitive impairment (IWCI), in comparison with those of healthy controls. A second goal is to evaluate whether the scoring system of the Catalan version of the CAT (CAT-CAT) is helpful to discriminate different patterns of language impairment. Methods and procedure: In the study, 109 control subjects, 20 IWA and 4 IWCI were asked to orally describe a picture from the CAT-CAT. The scoring method consisted in a closed-rating system that evaluates productivity, discourse efficiency, fluency, grammatical complexity and grammaticality. Results: The results show that the overall scores of the control subjects were significantly higher than those of the experimental groups; the difference between the two experimental groups was not significant. Yet, the group of IWA showed greater intersubject variability than the group of IWCI. Also, the IWA were consistently worse in fluency, grammaticality and grammatical complexity than the IWCI, which indicated a different pattern of performance between the two groups. Conclusions: Our findings therefore show that the oral picture description of the CAT-CAT is sensitive to the language impairment of subjects with aphasia and cognitive impairment. Moreover, the rating system put forward allows us to uncover different patterns of language impairment, since it includes variables to evaluate separately content and discourse efficiency on the one hand, and grammatical features on the other hand. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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