scholarly journals Normative data for a brief neuropsychological battery administered to English- and Spanish-speaking community-dwelling elders

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURIE STRICKS ◽  
JOHN PITTMAN ◽  
DIANE M. JACOBS ◽  
MARY SANO ◽  
YAAKOV STERN
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Neuropsychological Tests ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Neuropsychological Measures ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Washington Heights

The use of neuropsychological tests in non-English-speaking populations and among those with less education has been limited because most tests have been standardized for English-speaking populations with relatively high levels of education. In effort to establish norms, a battery of neuropsychological tests was administered, in either English or Spanish, to 995 normal elders with a wide range of educational attainment, residing in the community of Washington Heights–Inwood in northern Manhattan. Results indicate that age, education, and language all influence test performance and should be considered when evaluating neuropsychological measures. (JINS, 1998, 4, 311–318.)

scholarly journals Normative Data for Selected Subtests of the WAIS-R in a Spanish-Speaking Adult Population Living in the U.S. – Mexico Border Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1274-1274
Author(s):  
T Scott ◽  
A Morlett Paredes ◽  
M Taylor ◽  
A Umlauf ◽  
L Artiola i Fortuny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Normative Data ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Adult Intelligence Scale ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Abstract Objective Adaptations of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Revised (WAIS-R) and accompanying norms exist for a limited number of Spanish-speaking populations, but none are available for US-dwelling Spanish speakers of Mexican origin, who make up the largest proportion of Latinas/os in the US. As part of a larger test adaptation and norming effort for Spanish-speakers from the US-Mexico border region, we generated and investigated demographically adjusted interpretive norms for selected WAIS-R subtests. Participants and Method Participants included 183 community-dwelling, primarily Spanish-speaking individuals, aged 20 to 55 (education range: 0-20 years; 58% female), who were residing in the US-Mexico border region. Participants completed the WAIS-R Spanish version (Block Design, Arithmetic, and Vocabulary subtests) as part of a larger neuropsychological battery. Demographically adjusted T-scores were calculated for these subtests using fractional polynomial equations, which controlled for age, education, and sex. We examined rates of neurocognitive impairment (T < 40) in our sample derived from the present demographically adjusted Spanish speaking norms and from the existing WAIS-R demographically adjusted norms for English-speaking Non-Latina/o White and Black adults. Results Based on the normalized distribution of T-scores, the newly developed regional Spanish-speaker norms yielded subtest rates of impaired performance between 13-16% (i.e., within the expected -1 SD). By comparison, the proportion of impaired subtest performances was between 4-6% when applying the existing English-speaking norms to our sample. Conclusions Regional normative data will improve interpretation of test performance on selected WAIS-R subtests for Spanish-speakers living in the US and will facilitate a more valid analysis of neuropsychological profile patterns in this population. Cross-validation with Spanish-speakers in other regions and/or with other national origins is needed.

Cognitive Test Performance in a Community-Based Nondemented Elderly Sample in Rural India: The Indo-U.S. Cross-National Dementia Epidemiology Study

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ganguli ◽  
Vijay Chandra ◽  
Joanne E. Gilby ◽  
Graham Ratcliff ◽  
Sujatha D. Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Neuropsychological Tests ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Epidemiology Study ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Northern India ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Cognitive Test Performance ◽  
Cross National

Interpretation of cognitive test performance among individuals from a given population requires an understanding of cognitive norms in that population. Little is known about normative test performance among elderly illiterate non-English-speaking individuals. An age-stratified random sample of men and women, aged 55 years and older, was drawn from a community-based population in the rural area of Ballabgarh in northern India. These Hindi-speaking individuals had little or no education and were largely illiterate. A battery of neuropsychological tests, specially adapted from the CERAD neuropsychological battery, which was adminstered to this sample, is described. Subjects also underwent a protocol diagnostic examination for dementia. Norms for test performance of 374 nondemented subjects on these tests are reported across the sample and also by age, gender, and literacy.

Neuropsychological Test Performance in Framingham: A Descriptive Study

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1023-1040
Author(s):  
Mary E. Farmer ◽  
Lon R. White ◽  
Steven J. Kittner ◽  
Edith Kaplan ◽  
Elizabeth Moes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Neuropsychological Tests ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Framingham Study ◽  
Hearing Impairments

In 1976–1978, a battery of eight neuropsychologic tests was administered to 2,123 participants in the Framingham Study aged 55 to 89 yr. The battery was designed to sample multiple areas of cognitive function including language skills, memory, learning, reproduction of designs, attention, and abstract thinking. Performance is described for several groups in this population: a large community-dwelling sample, those with hearing impairments, and those with documented strokes. Performance is described by age, sex, and education strata for the community sample. This normative information should be useful for interpreting individual test performance on neuropsychological tests.

Normative Data for the Selective Reminding Test: A Random Digit Dialing Sample

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. Scherl ◽  
Lauren B. Krupp ◽  
Christopher Christodoulou ◽  
Tina M. Morgan ◽  
Leslie Hyman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Normative Data ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Wide Range Achievement Test ◽  
Random Digit Dialing ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Selective Reminding ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Healthy Control ◽  
Alternate Forms ◽  
Selective Reminding Test

Healthy control participants (46 women, M age = 44.3 yr., SD = 7.6; 29 men) were recruited to undergo a comprehensive neuropsychological battery and serve as a comparison group in a study of cognitive functioning in patients with Lyme disease. Participants were selected using Mitofsky-Waksberg random digit dialing. The Buschke 12-word, six-trial Selective Reminding Test was administered as part of the neuropsychological battery and normative data are presented stratified by age and sex. Performance on alternate forms of this measure were examined. Mean education, intelligence quotient, and Wide Range Achievement Test-3 Reading scores are reported.

scholarly journals Neuropsychologická testová baterie pro děti

E-psychologie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-91
Author(s):  
Kateřina Bukačová ◽  
◽  
Pavla Lhotová ◽  
Alice Maulisová
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychological Tests ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Neuropsychological Development ◽  
Developmental Scale ◽  
Age Range

The measures of children´s and adolescents´ cognitive performance in the Czech Republic have been so far assessed mainly by intelligence tests, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC-III) or the Intelligence and Developmental Scale for Children (IDS). However, there have been growing requirements for more accurate examination of individual cognitive profile for which the neuropsychological tests are not available. So far, in the pediatric population, we can only examine more thoroughly some of the cognitive functions, such as memory. For many other tests, normative data are available for the Czech population only in a narrow age range. The Neuropsychological Battery for Children aims to become a quality and affordable neuropsychological tool for assessing the neuropsychological development of children aged 6–19 years with appropriate standards. The paper briefly describes this test battery.

scholarly journals Universal History as a Way of Life

2020 ◽  
Vol - (4) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
N.G. Bagdasaryan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
University Education ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Universal History ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Methodology Of Science ◽  
International Research Project

We consider the legacy of A.P. Nazaretyan, a thinker of an extremely wide range, one of the developers of the international research project of Universal History (in English-speaking countries Big History, in Spanish-speaking countries Megahistoria, in German-speaking countries Weltallgeschichte), post-disciplinary, or problem knowledge, representing Russia in it. He has made many efforts to introduce the concept into university education, in particular, reading a course at Dubna University. His chapter in the textbook for undergraduate and graduate students "History, Philosophy and Methodology of Science and Technology" on the evolution of types of worldview is discussed in detail.

Nasometric Values for Normal Spanish-Speaking Females: A Preliminary Report

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel T. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Initial Data ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Intersubject Variability ◽  
Puerto Rican Spanish ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Similar Reading

Most normative data available for assessing resonance through instrumentation have been collected with English-speaking individuals. The present study aimed at providing initial data on Spanish for use with the nasometer. Mean nasalance scores were obtained from 40 normal Puerto Rican Spanish-speaking females while they read three types of stimuli: (1) sentences containing nasal consonants, (2) a reading passage with both oral and nasal consonants, and (3) a reading passage with oral consonants. Results indicated significant differences In mean nasalance scores across the nasal sentences, as well as the two paragraph stimuli. In addition, a high degree of intersubject variability in the production of the target stimuli was evidenced. Comparisons with previous English normative data with similar reading stimuli are made and possible avenues for further research on the use of the nasometer with Spanish-speaking populations are discussed.

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