Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: May | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 169-181
Development and Adaptation of Cognitive Linguistic Assessment Protocol in Tamil (T-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 at adapting the Cognitive linguistic assessment protocol for Adults (CLAP) in Kannada by Kamath, 2001 to Tamil speaking population. Normal adults and elder persons (40 males and 40 females) in the age range of 24-75+ years were considered as the participants. Content validation was done with the help of five Speech language pathologist (SLPs) and one Tamil teacher also pilot study was carried out and final T-CLAP was formed which was administered on eight participants across the four domains which includes, Attention, Perception and Discrimination, Memory, Reasoning and Problem solving and Organization. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS software (version 25) to find significant difference in all four domains as age increases to check for the effect of age, gender and age*gender interactions. Result revealed that as age increases a general trend of declined cognitive performance was noted across the various test items in each domain. On comparing male and female participant performance across the age group, predominantly male participants performed better than female participants however no significant difference seen. Overall Domain IV (Organization) was observed to be more sensitive to detect cognitive decline whereas domain I (Attention, perception and discrimination) was least sensitive.
Keywords: CLAP, Domain, Aging, Gender, protocol.
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