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Muğla Sıtkı Koçman · Speech and Language

Aphasia assessment is the initial step of a well-structured language therapy. Therefore, it is reasonable to underline that the assessment tools need to consider the typological and cultural characteristics of the language. A group of international researchers in the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists have been adapting the Comprehensive Aphasia Te...

Relative clauses with ambiguous attachment are sometimes processed faster than their unambiguous counterparts. Two broad classes of theories account for this phenomenon: Race-based models posit that ambiguous sentences are read faster due to a “race” between several permissible analyses of the sentence. In contrast, the strategic underspecification...

ABSTRACT Objective: Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task (CLT) is de- signed to assess comprehension and production of nouns-verbs in preschool children living in mono/multilingual context. The current re- search is a preliminary study of CLT Turkish (TR) version. The aim of this study is to examine the quality of test and to present preliminary findings...

Objective: In this case report, we aimed to examine the effects of an intensive voice treatment (the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment [LSVT®LOUD]) for Wilson’s disease (WD), and adult cerebral palsy (CP), and dysarthria. Method: The participants received LSVT®LOUD four times a week for 4 weeks. Acoustic, perceptual (GRBAS) analyses were performed and...

Background and Aim Cross-linguistic adaptations of aphasia assessment tools in Turkey are needed to improve aphasia assessment and rehabilitation with individuals speaking languages other than well-resourced languages. Aligned with this need, we conducted several studies to propose an adaptation of “The Comprehensive Aphasia Test” (CAT) into Turkis...

Traxler et al. (1998) have found that relative clauses with ambiguous attachment are sometimes read faster than their unambiguous counterparts. Two broad classes of theories account for this phenomenon: Race-based models posit that ambiguous sentences are read faster due to a ‘race’ between several permissible analyses of the sentence. In contrast,...

Objective: Little is known about the impact of time on the verbal fluency performance among elderly population. The aims of this study were to (i) examine the verbal fluency (semantic and action fluency) performance across four quarters of 60 seconds and (ii) explore the relationship between demographic (education and age) and time variables on the...

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...

Self-limited focal epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes, also known as Rolandic epilepsy (RE), is a well-established focal epilepsy of childhood, characterized with language impairment. To investigate the relationship between language deficits and clinical parameters of self-limited focal epilepsies of childhood (SFEC), 21 patients with RE, 10 pati...

Introduction: The questions of how language and cognition affect each other, and of how and to what extent cognitive skills of individuals with aphasia are impaired are controversial (Hamsher, 1991; Tatemichi et al.,1994). These issues are important for the speech and language therapist (SLT), in order to be able to formulate working hypotheses and...

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 la...

Çalışmadaki amacımız, otizm spektrum bozukluğuna (OSB) sahip çocukların Türkçe İletişim Gelişimi Envanteri-II (TİGE-II) ve Peabody Resim Kelime Testi ile ölçülen sözcük bilgileri yaş ve cinsiyete göre eşlenmiş tipik gelişim gösteren (TGG) çocukların sözcük bilgilerini karşılaştırmalı ve ilişkisel olarak incelemektir. Araştırmanın katılımcıları Eski...

This article investigates the cross-linguistic comparability of the newly developed lexical assessment tool Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT). LITMUS-CLT is a part the Language Impairment Testing in Multilingual Settings (LITMUS) battery (Armon-Lotem, de Jong & Meir, 2015). Here we analyse results on receptive and expressive word knowledg...

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Stem-, Spraak-, en Taalpathologie

Two 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 cond...