Discourse Characteristics in Aphasia Beyond the Western Aphasia Battery Cutoff
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ADAPTATION OF THE WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY IN BANGLA Introduction
of the primary and secondary language symptoms. Of all the tools available for aphasia diagnosis, the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB; Kertesz, 1982) has proved to be one of the most comprehensive test batteries for describing the aphasia symptom complex. Several authors have pointed out the need for language-specific tools for the assessment of aphasia. But in Bengali, the most prevalent language...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1058-0360,1558-9110
DOI: 10.1044/2016_ajslp-16-0071