{"id":39,"date":"2016-04-04T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T10:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2017-02-15T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:57:06","slug":"the-development-of-an-aphasia-assessment-battery-for-qatarieastern-arabic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/tariq-khwaileh\/the-development-of-an-aphasia-assessment-battery-for-qatarieastern-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"The development of an aphasia assessment battery for Qatari\/Gulfian Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]\u2018The development of an Aphasia assessment battery for Qatari\/Gulfian Arabic\u2019 aims to develop a normative database and a comprehensive aphasia battery test for Arabic speakers with aphasia. The resulting database and battery will be driven by linguistic features specific to the Arabic language and culture, and will be available for use in hospitals, clinics, and speech therapy departments inside and outside Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Significance<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a lack of psycholinguistic studies done on Arabic, specifically in normative data for variables affecting lexical retrieval. Moreover, linguistically informed clinical assessments for aphasia are not readily available for Arabic. At the moment, only translated tests are in use. These translated tests fail to take account of Arabic linguistic features which can result in inaccurate diagnosis, conclusions and interventions.<\/p>\n

Therefore the main aim of this project is to develop data from Arabic, and construct various tests which will allow for clinicians and speech therapists to take account of Arabic linguistic features, rather than depend on translated versions adapted from normative databases for other languages.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_single_image image=”87″ alignment=”center” style=”” border_color=”grey” img_link_large=”” img_link_target=”_self” css_animation=”” img_size=”600×400″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Normative database<\/em><\/p>\n

The database will include\u00a0normative data collected from 160 adult healthy Qatari\/Gulfian Arabic speakers for nouns\/objects, verbs\/actions, concepts, pictures, and adjectives that will be used in devising the aphasia subtests.<\/p>\n

The normative data is collected for the following variables:<\/p>\n