Uporaba testa za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi v starosti od 65 do 75 let slovensko govorečih oseb brez demence

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Language:	Slovenian
Year of publishing:	2012
Source:	Ljubljana
Typology:	2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:	UL PEF - Faculty of Education
Publisher:	[M. Jevšnikar]
UDC:	376:81'234.2(043.2)
COBISS:	9184329
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Secondary language:	English
Secondary title:	The application of bilingual aphasia test at 65 to 75 years old Slovenian speaking persons without dementia diagnosis
Secondary abstract:	No living being can avoid the process of aging. Aging changes physical and mental wellbeing which can cause variety of health conditions. One of such conditions that we associate with aging is dementia. In theoretical part of this thesis we focused on speech and language communication problems. These problems may arise with different types of dementia. Furthermore we described general signs of aphasia that resemble those seen with dementia. Aphasia is one of the signs of dementia therefore Paradis (2011) suggests using Bilingual Aphasia Test for testing dementia since it takes into consideration areas afflicted by various types of dementia. Testing was conducted on 20 people ages 65 to 75. They were all unilingual and without any neurological or degenerative conditions. Beforehand we conducted a Mini Mental State Examination which revealed that one person does not match our criteria therefore that person was excluded from additional analysis. Afterwards testing using Bilingual Aphasia Test was performed. Main goal of this thesis was to verify that Bilingual Aphasia Test is suitable for selected group age disregarding subject's sex or degree of education. Results we obtained support the hypothesis that person's sex does not affect outcome of Bilingual Aphasia Test. On the other hand our findings show that person's degree of education does have an influence on Bilingual Aphasia Test results. We attributed this finding to various factors such as person's activity level, reading books, etc. We also looked into a possible link between a Mini Mental State Examination and Bilingual Aphasia Test which proved to be statistically insignificant.
Secondary keywords:	speech defect;test;elderly person;govorna motnja;starejša oseba;
File type:	application/pdf
Type (COBISS):	Undergraduate thesis
Thesis comment:	Univ. Ljubljana, Pedagoška fak., Specialna in rehabilitacijska pedagogika
Pages:	86 str.
Type (ePrints):	thesis
Title (ePrints):	The application of bilingual aphasia test at 65 to 75 years old Slovenian speaking persons without dementia diagnosis
Keywords (ePrints):	test za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi
Keywords (ePrints, secondary language):	bilingual aphasia test
Abstract (ePrints):	Staranje je neizogiben proces vseh živih bitij, je spreminjanje zunanjosti in notranjosti. Z njim se spreminja vse. To pa pomeni, da lahko s staranjem nastopijo različne bolezni. Ena od bolezni, ki jo povezujemo s staranjem, je zagotovo demenca. V diplomskem delu smo se v teoretičnem delu osredotočili na govorno-jezikovne težave v komunikaciji, ki se pojavijo pri različnih tipih demence, ter opisali splošne znake afazije, ki so zelo podobni tistim, ki jih srečujemo pri demenci. Eden od znakov demence je afazija, zato je po navajanju Paradisa (2011) za testiranje oseb z demenco primeren test za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi, saj zajema področja, ki so pri demenci oziroma različnih vrstah demence prizadeta. Testiranje smo izvedli na dvajsetih osebah v starosti od 65 do 75 let, ki so bile enojezične in brez nevroloških ali degenerativnih okvar. Te osebe smo predhodno testirali s kratkim preizkusom spoznavnih sposobnosti, kjer se je izkazalo, da ena oseba ne ustreza našim zahtevam, zato smo jo v nadaljnji analizi podatkov izločili. Nato smo izvedli testiranje s testom za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi. Cilj diplomske naloge je bil preveriti, ali je test za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi primeren za to starostno skupino, ne glede na spol in stopnjo izobrazbe. Z rezultati, ki smo jih dobili, smo potrdili hipotezo, da spol ne vpliva na rezultate testa za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi, medtem ko se je izkazalo, da je v našem primeru izobrazba vplivala na rezultate testa, kar smo pripisali različnim dejavnikom, kot so aktivnost, branje knjig, fizična aktivnost ipd. Prav tako smo ugotavljali povezanost med kratkim preizkusom sposobnosti in testom za afazijo pri dvojezični osebi, ki pa se je izkazala za statistično pomembno.
Abstract (ePrints, secondary language):	No living being can avoid the process of aging. Aging changes physical and mental wellbeing which can cause variety of health conditions. One of such conditions that we associate with aging is dementia. In theoretical part of this thesis we focused on speech and language communication problems. These problems may arise with different types of dementia. Furthermore we described general signs of aphasia that resemble those seen with dementia. Aphasia is one of the signs of dementia therefore Paradis (2011) suggests using Bilingual Aphasia Test for testing dementia since it takes into consideration areas afflicted by various types of dementia. Testing was conducted on 20 people ages 65 to 75. They were all unilingual and without any neurological or degenerative conditions. Beforehand we conducted a Mini Mental State Examination which revealed that one person does not match our criteria therefore that person was excluded from additional analysis. Afterwards testing using Bilingual Aphasia Test was performed. Main goal of this thesis was to verify that Bilingual Aphasia Test is suitable for selected group age disregarding subject's sex or degree of education. Results we obtained support the hypothesis that person's sex does not affect outcome of Bilingual Aphasia Test. On the other hand our findings show that person's degree of education does have an influence on Bilingual Aphasia Test results. We attributed this finding to various factors such as person's activity level, reading books, etc. We also looked into a possible link between a Mini Mental State Examination and Bilingual Aphasia Test which proved to be statistically insignificant.
Keywords (ePrints, secondary language):	bilingual aphasia test
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