Is adaptation of the word accentuation test of premorbid intelligence necessary for use among older, Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States?

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-399

  Schrauf, Roberts W ^a   Weintraub, Sandra ^b   Navarro, Ellen ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Educational measurement; Hispanic americans; Multilingualism; Neuropsychological test

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONEME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEMENTIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33745662131     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617706060462     Document Type: Article

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