Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a stage between normal aging and dementia. Even though individ... more Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a stage between normal aging and dementia. Even though individuals have some decline in cognition due to normal aging, preserved daily life functioning skills is the main distinction between dementia and MCI. Individuals with MCI experience mild impairments in memory, language and judgement.
This paper presents a short overview of Turkey and the Turkish language, and then outlines the pr... more This paper presents a short overview of Turkey and the Turkish language, and then outlines the process of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Turkish and how the Turkish MAIN has been used with monolingual and bilingual children. The grammatical features of Turkish, the critical points in the adaptation process of MAIN to Turkish and our experiences of extensive piloting of the Turkish MAIN with typically developing monolingual children are described.
Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) benefits people with aphasia following stroke. Grou... more Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) benefits people with aphasia following stroke. Group level summary statistics from randomised controlled trials hinder exploration of highly complex SLT interventions and a clinically relevant heterogeneous population. Creating a database of individual participant data (IPD) for people with aphasia aims to allow exploration of individual and therapy-related predictors of recovery and prognosis. Aim: To explore the contribution that individual participant characteristics (including stroke and aphasia profiles) and SLT intervention components make to language recovery following stroke. Methods and procedures: We will identify eligible IPD datasets (including randomised controlled trials, non-randomised comparison studies, observational studies and registries) and invite their contribution to the database. Where possible, we will use meta- and network meta-analysis to explore language performance after stroke and predictors of recovery as i...
Amac: Ulkemizde dil ve konusma terapisi mesleginin temelleri 1999 yilinda Anadolu Universitesi Di... more Amac: Ulkemizde dil ve konusma terapisi mesleginin temelleri 1999 yilinda Anadolu Universitesi Dil ve Konusma Bozukluklari Egitim, Arastirma ve Uygulama Merkezi’nin (DILKOM) kurulusu ile atilmistir. Daha sonraki yillarda acilan bolumler ile ulkemizdeki dil ve konusma terapistlerinin (DKT) sayisi hizla artmistir. Bununla birlikte terapi ihtiyaci duyan kisilerin, DKT meslegi ile ilgili bilgilerinin ve terapistlere ulasma imkanlarinin yeterli olmadigi soylenebilir. Bu calisma, toplumdaki bireylerin dil ve konusma terapisi meslegi hakkindaki farkindalik duzeylerini ortaya koymayi amaclayan betimsel bir arastirmadir. Yontem: Calismada katilimcilarin farkindalik duzeylerini belirlemek amaciyla 31 maddeden olusan bir anket kullanilmistir. Arastirmaya; Turkiye’nin cesitli sehirlerinde yasayan, 18-70+ yas araliginda, 86 erkek ve 138 kadin katilmistir. Katilimcilarin ankete vermis olduklari cevaplar betimsel ve karsilastirmali istatistiksel yontemler kullanilarak analiz edilmistir. Bulgular: ...
The present study examines the influence of language proficiency and language combination on bili... more The present study examines the influence of language proficiency and language combination on bilingual lexical access using category fluency in 109 healthy speakers. Participants completed a category fluency task in each of their languages in three main categories (animals, clothing, and food), each with two subcategories, as well as a language use questionnaire assessing their proficiency. Five language combinations were examined (Hindi–English, Kannada–English, Mandarin–English, Spanish–English, and Turkish–English). Multivariate analyses of variance revealed that the average number of correct items named in the category fluency task across the three main categories varied across the different groups only in English and not the other language. Further, results showed that language exposure composite (extracted from the questionnaire using a principal component analysis) significantly affected the average number of items named across the three main categories. Overall, these result...
Background: People with aphasia present with different of demographic, language, stroke, and impa... more Background: People with aphasia present with different of demographic, language, stroke, and impairment profiles. A Cochrane review found that two-thirds of included trials had comparison data on p...
Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental... more Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental image or sensory experience. Imageability ratings are used extensively in psycholinguistic, neuropsychological, and aphasiological studies. However, little formal knowledge exists about whether and how these ratings are associated between and within languages. Fifteen imageability databases were cross-correlated using nonparametric statistics. Some of these corresponded to unpublished data collected within a European research network-the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (COST IS1208). All but four of the correlations were significant. The average strength of the correlations (rho = .68) and the variance explained (R (2) = 46%) were moderate. This implies that factors other than imageability may explain 54% of the results. Imageability ratings often correlate across languages. Different possibly interacting factors may explain the moderate strength and variance explained in the correla...
ABSTRACTTwo studies examined the effects of age, gender, and task on Turkish narrative skills of ... more ABSTRACTTwo studies examined the effects of age, gender, and task on Turkish narrative skills of Turkish–German bilingual children. In Study 1, 36 children (2 years, 11 months [2;11]–7;11) told stories in two conditions (“tell-after model” and “tell-no model”) and answered comprehension questions. In Study 2, 13 children (5;5–7;11) participated in two conditions (“tell-no model” and “retell”) and were compared to Study 1 participants’ on tell tasks. The studies showed significant age effects on story complexity and comprehension, but not story structure and internal state terms. There were no significant effects for gender. Comprehension was significantly better in the “tell-after model” than in the “tell-no model” condition (Study 1). For production (storytelling), a trend favoring retell over tell was found (Study 2).
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a stage between normal aging and dementia. Even though individ... more Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a stage between normal aging and dementia. Even though individuals have some decline in cognition due to normal aging, preserved daily life functioning skills is the main distinction between dementia and MCI. Individuals with MCI experience mild impairments in memory, language and judgement.
This paper presents a short overview of Turkey and the Turkish language, and then outlines the pr... more This paper presents a short overview of Turkey and the Turkish language, and then outlines the process of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Turkish and how the Turkish MAIN has been used with monolingual and bilingual children. The grammatical features of Turkish, the critical points in the adaptation process of MAIN to Turkish and our experiences of extensive piloting of the Turkish MAIN with typically developing monolingual children are described.
Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) benefits people with aphasia following stroke. Grou... more Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) benefits people with aphasia following stroke. Group level summary statistics from randomised controlled trials hinder exploration of highly complex SLT interventions and a clinically relevant heterogeneous population. Creating a database of individual participant data (IPD) for people with aphasia aims to allow exploration of individual and therapy-related predictors of recovery and prognosis. Aim: To explore the contribution that individual participant characteristics (including stroke and aphasia profiles) and SLT intervention components make to language recovery following stroke. Methods and procedures: We will identify eligible IPD datasets (including randomised controlled trials, non-randomised comparison studies, observational studies and registries) and invite their contribution to the database. Where possible, we will use meta- and network meta-analysis to explore language performance after stroke and predictors of recovery as i...
Amac: Ulkemizde dil ve konusma terapisi mesleginin temelleri 1999 yilinda Anadolu Universitesi Di... more Amac: Ulkemizde dil ve konusma terapisi mesleginin temelleri 1999 yilinda Anadolu Universitesi Dil ve Konusma Bozukluklari Egitim, Arastirma ve Uygulama Merkezi’nin (DILKOM) kurulusu ile atilmistir. Daha sonraki yillarda acilan bolumler ile ulkemizdeki dil ve konusma terapistlerinin (DKT) sayisi hizla artmistir. Bununla birlikte terapi ihtiyaci duyan kisilerin, DKT meslegi ile ilgili bilgilerinin ve terapistlere ulasma imkanlarinin yeterli olmadigi soylenebilir. Bu calisma, toplumdaki bireylerin dil ve konusma terapisi meslegi hakkindaki farkindalik duzeylerini ortaya koymayi amaclayan betimsel bir arastirmadir. Yontem: Calismada katilimcilarin farkindalik duzeylerini belirlemek amaciyla 31 maddeden olusan bir anket kullanilmistir. Arastirmaya; Turkiye’nin cesitli sehirlerinde yasayan, 18-70+ yas araliginda, 86 erkek ve 138 kadin katilmistir. Katilimcilarin ankete vermis olduklari cevaplar betimsel ve karsilastirmali istatistiksel yontemler kullanilarak analiz edilmistir. Bulgular: ...
The present study examines the influence of language proficiency and language combination on bili... more The present study examines the influence of language proficiency and language combination on bilingual lexical access using category fluency in 109 healthy speakers. Participants completed a category fluency task in each of their languages in three main categories (animals, clothing, and food), each with two subcategories, as well as a language use questionnaire assessing their proficiency. Five language combinations were examined (Hindi–English, Kannada–English, Mandarin–English, Spanish–English, and Turkish–English). Multivariate analyses of variance revealed that the average number of correct items named in the category fluency task across the three main categories varied across the different groups only in English and not the other language. Further, results showed that language exposure composite (extracted from the questionnaire using a principal component analysis) significantly affected the average number of items named across the three main categories. Overall, these result...
Background: People with aphasia present with different of demographic, language, stroke, and impa... more Background: People with aphasia present with different of demographic, language, stroke, and impairment profiles. A Cochrane review found that two-thirds of included trials had comparison data on p...
Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental... more Imageability is a psycholinguistic variable that indicates how well a word gives rise to a mental image or sensory experience. Imageability ratings are used extensively in psycholinguistic, neuropsychological, and aphasiological studies. However, little formal knowledge exists about whether and how these ratings are associated between and within languages. Fifteen imageability databases were cross-correlated using nonparametric statistics. Some of these corresponded to unpublished data collected within a European research network-the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (COST IS1208). All but four of the correlations were significant. The average strength of the correlations (rho = .68) and the variance explained (R (2) = 46%) were moderate. This implies that factors other than imageability may explain 54% of the results. Imageability ratings often correlate across languages. Different possibly interacting factors may explain the moderate strength and variance explained in the correla...
ABSTRACTTwo studies examined the effects of age, gender, and task on Turkish narrative skills of ... more ABSTRACTTwo studies examined the effects of age, gender, and task on Turkish narrative skills of Turkish–German bilingual children. In Study 1, 36 children (2 years, 11 months [2;11]–7;11) told stories in two conditions (“tell-after model” and “tell-no model”) and answered comprehension questions. In Study 2, 13 children (5;5–7;11) participated in two conditions (“tell-no model” and “retell”) and were compared to Study 1 participants’ on tell tasks. The studies showed significant age effects on story complexity and comprehension, but not story structure and internal state terms. There were no significant effects for gender. Comprehension was significantly better in the “tell-after model” than in the “tell-no model” condition (Study 1). For production (storytelling), a trend favoring retell over tell was found (Study 2).
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