It's been a wonderful Science of Aphasia Conference #SOA2025 in lovely Copenhagen! Thanks to the organizers @johanneskned.bsky.social & team for making it happen! See you all next year in Bordeaux, France (22-25 Sept, 2026)!

Huge thanks to @cmnguyen.bsky.social and Tedd Judd for sharing their work on the application of the ITC guidelines to neuropsychological test translation and adaptation in our Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists WG2 webinar yesterday! #neuropsychology #aphasia

📢 Excited to announce our next WG2 webinar open to all Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists #CATs members:

📍Standards & strategies for test adaptation across languages/cultures
Speakers: Christopher Nguyen @cmnguyen.bsky.social & Tedd Judd
📅Sept 23 2025
#aphasia #SLpeeps #neuropsychology
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For more, please check out the special issue: Across countries and cultures: The assessment of aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations available in Aphasiology. 6/6
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This review makes a valuable contribution by providing guidelines for future test adaptations as well as solutions to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural challenges commonly found in this process. 5/6

This interest motivated our review led by Martínez-Ferreiro et al. (2024) describing the procedure followed within the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists Working Group 2: Aphasia Assessment and Outcomes to adapt the CAT to 19 languages with diverse typologies. 4/6

As the CAT has multiple advantages including psycholinguistic profiling of language performance in people with aphasia, a growing interest in the international aphasia community has emerged to adapt this test to a variety of languages. 3/6

The CAT was originally developed in English to assess language impairment in people with aphasia. The CAT is based on current theoretical knowledge about variables that affect language performance, associated cognitive deficits and the impact of living with aphasia (Howard et al., 2009). 2/6

Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: a review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations Standardised aphasia assessment tools may not always be available in a variety of languages, posing challenges for speech and language therapists to adequately assess and diagnose aphasia in speake...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #SLPeeps #neuropsychology 1/6

Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: a review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations: Aphasiology: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An update on validating the Hong Kong Cantonese version of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (cant-cat) The Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT), a standardized battery with 34 subtests, has been adapted into eight different languages, with other 11 language adaptations close to being finished. Currently...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #Cantonese #SLPeeps

An update on validating the Hong Kong Cantonese version of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (cant-cat): Aphasiology: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

For more, please check out the special issue: Across countries and cultures: The assessment of aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations available in Aphasiology. @seckin1984.bsky.social

For more, please check out the special issue: Across countries and cultures: The assessment of aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations available in Aphasiology.
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This study offers solutions for test adaptation challenges, including strategies to deal with large variability in socio-demographic variables, such as participants’ age, place of residence, and their linguistic command of Basque, which influence psycholinguistic outcomes from name agreement scores.

Pourquie and Munarriz-Ibarrola (2025) conducted a series of name agreement and word comprehension studies with neurotypical Basque speakers as part of the adaptation of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) into Basque.

Socio-demographics and the different structures of two languages can yield differences in test performance across people with aphasia with different linguistic backgrounds. This is a challenging aspect of adapting an aphasia assessment tool into a minoritized and non-standard language.

Overcoming challenges in name agreement to standardise the CAT in Basque, a minority language in the process of normalisation There is a lack of standardised aphasia assessment tools in Basque, a language in the process of normalisation, spoken by about 809.000 speakers in the South of France and North of Spain. This may ...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #Basque #SLPeeps

Overcoming challenges in name agreement to standardise the CAT in Basque, a minority language in the process of normalisation: Aphasiology: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

For more, please check out the special issue: Across countries and cultures: The assessment of aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations available in Aphasiology. @seckin1984.bsky.social

Many thanks to all contributing authors, @seckin1984.bsky.social for co-leading this special issue together, #CATS @madelinecruice.bsky.social for supporting international collaborative aphasia projects, and the #Aphasiology editorial team for their trust this project! 4/4

Across countries and cultures: the assessment of aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations Published in Aphasiology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I am very happy to announce the publication of our editorial for the special issue: Across countries and cultures: The #assessment of #aphasia in linguistically diverse clinical populations in #Aphasiology Free access! #SLPeeps #Linguistics🧵1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you an SLT/SLP working with bi/multilingual people with #aphasia? Please participate in our international survey on practices & challenges in providing clinical services to this population! 🧠💬 #neurorehabilitation #SLPeeps. Please help me spread the word!
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