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Parallel recovery in a trilingual speaker: the use of the Bilingual Aphasia Test as a diagnostic complement to the
David W Green1, Louise Ruffle, Alice Grogan
1Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK. d.w.green@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
We illustrate the value of the Bilingual Aphasia Test in the diagnostic assessment of a trilingual speaker post-stroke living in England for whom English was a non-native language. The Comprehensive Aphasia Test is routinely used to assess patients in English, but only in combination with the Bilingual Aphasia Test is it possible and practical to provide a full picture of the language impairment. We describe our test selection and the assessment it allows us to make.
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