THE BOSTON DIAGNOSTIC APHASIA EXAMINATION (SHORT FORM TEST) : IN HINDI VERSION– A PILOT STUDY FOR VALIDATION TO USE IN CLINICAL POPULATION.

Mrs Prema Devi; Dr Arun Banik

Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2019

THE BOSTON DIAGNOSTIC APHASIA EXAMINATION (SHORT FORM TEST) : IN HINDI VERSION– A PILOT STUDY FOR VALIDATION TO USE IN CLINICAL POPULATION.

Mrs Prema Devi, Dr Arun Banik

Abstract :

The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Battery (BDAE) is one of the most widely used aphasia tests. Information about general population performance, however, is limited in Indian context due linguistic variability. This paper analyzes the effects of gender, age, socioeconomic status (SES), academic achievement, and occupation for short form BDAE on Hindi population by translating few items of subtests. The BDAE was administered to a randomized sample of 150, occupationally active 30 to 70 year old participants (70 male and 80 female) from two SES groups. Gender and age had a significant effect on some reading and writing subtests. Body–part naming and mechanics of writing scores were significantly decreased in the low SES group. Education had a significant impact over most of the BDAE subtests.. ANOVA was done for the total variance in BDAE III (R) test. Summary: Results were significantly represented a difference in few subtests, however language has no variance on BDAE III (R).