AphasiaBank Protocol French Marcotte PWAs

Karine Marcotte
École d’orthophonie et d’audiologie
Université de Montréal
karine.marcotte@umontreal.ca

Participants:	PWAs
Type of Study:	AphasiaBank Discourse Protocol -- French
Location:	Montréal
Media type:	audio
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Corpus Description: Participants with brain damage

Aim of the project: The main objective of this longitudinal project is to document the evolution of speech skills following a stroke, and to identify whether these measures can predict long-term language recovery. To this end, thirty (30) patients with stroke in the hyperacute phase will be recruited and undergo language assessments in four phases post-stroke (< 24 hours, 48 – 72 hours, 9 – 14 days, 3 months and > 6 months post-stroke). -stroke). Thirty (30) people with aphasia in the chronic phase (> 6 months post-stroke) will also be evaluated and will constitute a control group.

Discourse tasks (obtained at all 5 timepoints for the people with a stroke recruited in the hyperacute phase and the 2 timepoints for the people with aphasia recruited in the chronic phase):

Personal narratives: Spontaneous Speech task from the Quick Aphasia Battery and Conversational Speech from the Montreal Évaluation de la communication (MEC).
Picture narratives: Single picture description of the picnic scene of the Western Aphasia Battery-Revised (WAB-R) and the Montreal Assessment of Connected Speech (MACS), which has been developed in Quebec. AND Sequences of picture description using the stories from AphasiaBank.*
Story retell will be assessed using the Cinderella task with visual support as well as the 101 dalmatians. *
Procedural discourse will be elicited using the ham and cheese sandwich task (cultural adaptation from AphasiaBank)* as well as with three gender neutral tasks from Sherratt and Bryan.

Other language abilities

Personal narratives: Spontaneous Speech task from the Quick Aphasia Battery and Conversational • Picture naming will be assessed using the TDQ-30, a test developed for Quebec French speakers.
Repetition will be assessed using the sentence repetition TEFREP, which has been developed following specifically French psycholinguistic properties as well as with the BECLA for words and non-words.
Word and Sentence comprehension scores will be obtained with the MT-86.
Discourse comprehension scores will be obtained using the narrative discourse task from the MEC
Reading aloud will be obtained with the standardized task ‘Le voyage d’Alice.
Functional communication using the Communication Activities for daily living.

Neuropsychological profile

A cognitive screening test will be conducted using the MoCA.
Verbal divergent thinking will be assessed using three verbal fluency tasks from the MEC and with the verbal fluency task of verbs of 1 minute developed for Quebec French speakers.
Mental flexibility will be assessed using the Alphaflex and the Trail Making Test (TMT), parts A and B. Alphaflex is more recent and less widely used than the TMT, but it requires flexibility on only one sequence (the alphabet) and does not have a visual component nor a motor response.
Working memory will be assessed using the Digit Span Task from the Canadian WAIS-IV.
Inhibitory control will be tested using the Stroop Victoria Test.

Acknowledgements

Grant-in-aid from Heart and Stroke Foundation Grant number : G-23-0034174 #IRB Approval : 2020-1900 Centre de recherche CIUSSS Nord-de-l’île-de-Montréal

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