Performance of unimpaired bilingual speakers of German and French on the Screening BAT

Barbara Köpke (1, 2) , Héloïse Marsili (2) , Katia Prod'Homme (1, 2)

1 Octogone - Octogone Unité de Recherche Interdisciplinaire
2 LORDAT - Laboratoire Jacques Lordat - Centre interdisciplinaire des sciences du langage et de la cognition

The Screening BAT, currently available in ten languages, is a simple and user-friendly test developed to allow for an efficient assessment of multilingual patients and to be used with patients who are in the acute phase of aphasia. It consists in an important reduction of the sub-tests (17 ou f 32) and items (117 out of 472) of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT, Paradis & Libben, 1987). While the different language versions of the BAT have been standardised with 60 healthy subjects, bilingualism was not taken into account in the standardisation. However, previous data obtained for the BAT and the Screening BAT with unimpaired bilingual speakers show that these participants do not reach criterion on all subtests. The aim of the present paper is to provide more comparative data from unimpaired bilingual speakers for the Screening BAT, focussing here on 20 highly educated German-French bilinguals.

Mots clés: Bilingualism; aphasia assessment; norms; German; French

Domaines: Sciences cognitives; Linguistique

Barbara Köpke, Héloïse Marsili, Katia Prod'Homme. Performance of unimpaired bilingual speakers of German and French on the Screening BAT. Aphasie und verwandte Gebiete (Internet), 2015, 2015 (2), pp.15-19. ⟨hal-01202367⟩