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Normative data for the Boston Naming Test in native Dutch-speaking Belgian children and the relation with
Gert Storms1, Jos Saerens, Peter P De Deyn
1Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. gert.storms@psy.kuleuven.ac.be
Abstract:
This paper reports the results of a normative study of the 60-item version of the Boston Naming Test (BNT) in a group of 371 native Dutch-speaking Flemish children between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Analysis of test results revealed that BNT performance was significantly affected by age and gender. The gathered norms were shown to be significantly lower than published norms for comparable North-American children. Error analysis disclosed remarkable similarities with data from elderly subjects, with verbal semantic paraphasias and 'don't know' responses occurring most frequently. Finally, BNT scores were shown to correlate strongly with general intelligence as measured with the Raven Progressive Matrices. The relation between both measures can be of help in the diagnosis of identification naming deficits and impaired word-retrieval capacities.
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