Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: May | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 161-168
Cognitive Linguistic Aspects in Healthy Individual and Individual with Cognitive Deficits Using Tamil CLAP
Aswini V1, Jasmine Lydia Selvaraj2
1Associate Speech Language Pathologist, Department of Speech language pathology, ZM The Speech Care Clinic, Nungambakkam, Chennai.
2Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Porur, Chennai.
Corresponding Author: Aswini V
ABSTRACT
The present study aimed to compare the Tamil-Cognitive Linguistic Assessment Protocol (T-CLAP) scores among Healthy Individuals (HI) and Cognitive Deficit Individuals (CDI) across various ages and also to examine effect of age, severity and age*severity effect using developed T-CLAP by Vijay and Lydia, 2018. 80 HI and 25 CDI (9 Mild CDI and 16 severe CDI) were taken as participants in the age range of 24-75+ years and were classified according to ‘Development through life Classification’. The data obtained were subjected to both Descriptive and Inferential statistical analysis which was carried out using SPSS software (version 25) to find significant difference in all four domains across various age groups, severity and age*severity effect in both HI and CDI. Descriptive statistics result revealed that across the four domains, Domain IV (Organization) was observed to be more sensitive to detect cognitive decline, hence CDI scored very less mean scores than HI. Overall result reveals that T-CLAP could differentiate between HI and CDI and also helps to distinguish the severity level. Significant difference was observed for age, severity and age* severity. Hence T-CLAP can serve as a valid tool to differentiate the HI and CDI.
Keywords: T-CLAP, Domain, Aging, Severity, Cognitive deficit.
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