The aims of this study were to determine if various treatment, item, and patient-level factors could be used to predict probe naming accuracy in a bilingual Spanish-English SFA treatment study. At the treatment-level, variables included phase (baseline vs. treatment), training condition (trained set 1 items vs. translations), and time (session). At the item-level, psycholinguistic variables were investigated including lexical frequency, phonological length in phones, and phonological neighborhood density. Finally, at the patient-level, impairment measures were used including aphasia severity (as measured by WAB AQ) naming impairment (represented by a composite naming score from pre-treatment assessments). Mixed-effects logistic regression methods were used to fit the data with fixed effects for the variables of interest as well as random effects for subject and item. The regression analyses revealed significant main effects of phase, time, and interactions with training condition such that naming accuracy on probes was higher for the treatment language during the treatment phase and over time in general. Significant effects were also noted for each of the psycholinguistic variables such that increased frequency, shorter length, and a larger neighborhood increased the likelihood of correct naming responses. Finally, overall aphasia severity and naming impairment both correlated with naming outcomes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/41990 |
| Date | 04 February 2021 |
| Creators | Scimeca, Michael D. |
| Contributors | Kiran, Swathi |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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