Language therapy effects on the treated and untreated languages of a multilingual person with aphasia

Goral, Mira and Rosas, Jason and Girbau, Dolors and Conner, Peggy S. and Obler, Loraine K. (2009) Language therapy effects on the treated and untreated languages of a multilingual person with aphasia. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

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Abstract

We administered language treatment in the first language of a multilingual person with aphasia and tested his skills pre- and post-treatment in his additional languages. We report improvement in object and action naming in the treated language (Catalan, the participant’s L1). Small cross-language generalization was found for Spanish, his highly-proficient, early-acquired, L2 as well as for English, his least-proficient language. Improvement was noted not only in items that were translation-equivalents of trained items but also of untrained items. Cognate status did not seem to influence the results.

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