Advancements in healthcare have resulted in both increased awareness and early identification of the symptoms of dementia. The session will address cognitive skills and impairment in bilingual adults with dementia. Furthermore, it will highlight the differences between dementia presentation in monolingual and bilingual persons and provide a detailed distinction of discourse abilities in healthy bilingual older adults and persons with dementia using case studies. Focus will be paid to discourse elicitation and sampling methods and consideration of cultural aspects. A case study will also highlight the discourse impairments in L1 and L2. Clinical implications will be discussed as they relate to the availability of services for bilingual patients, and the relevance of bilingual assessment in mild dementia will be discussed.
Cost: WSLHA Members - $35 | WSLHA Non-Members - $50 | ASHA CEU Members - $5 | ASHA CEU Non-Members - $7
Note: This program will be recorded for later viewing up to 14 days following the workshop. WSLHA will send out a link to the recording after the live session.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the cognitive and communication skills and deficits in bilingual persons with dementia.
Compare case studies on bilingual healthy adults and bilingual persons with dementia.
Explain the clinical implications of bilingual assessment in mild dementia.
Meet the Speaker: Deepa Srikant
Deepa Srikant serves as an assistant professor within the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She pursued her Doctorate in Speech-Language Pathology from All India Institute of Speech and Hearing in 2013. Her interest lays in the domains of bilingualism, dementia, and cognitive communication abilities. Her long-term objectives are to continue to study the impact of bilingualism and multilingualism on language preservation and attrition in healthy elderly people and persons with neurogenic communication disorders. Her research aims to create awareness on symptoms of cognitive decline in elderly at the earliest stage possible and to use strategies to reduce the progression of cognitive linguistic decline.
Financial Disclosure: Salaried full-time faculty at Pacific University, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Forest Grove, Oregon. Some of the data presented is part of her PhD research which was funded by All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, Government of India, India.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Deepa has more than a decade of experience working in the field of speech-language pathology. She is a multilingual speaker and it is her passion to work in this area. Right from her graduate program she has been working with individuals with dementia and language analysis and published several scientific papers related to this topic.
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