LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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Cognitive Linguistic Abilities in an Elderly Population

Sampath Kumar Lagishetti, Ph.D. Candidate
Lakshmi Venkatesh, Ph.D.

Abstract

Aging is an inevitable process of life, associated with special physical, emotional and social burdens imposed by mental decay in later life, and a general wear and tear at anatomical and functional levels. Some minimal changes in language abilities from a global communication point of view have been reported in literature. These changes are investigated in this study among Telugu-speaking persons.

Eighty Telugu speaking adults were divided into 8 groups starting from 40 to 45 years until 75 to 80 years. Each group consisted of 5 males and 5 females. Each participant was tested individually on cognitive-linguistic skills using the Cognitive Linguistic Assessment Protocol - Telugu (CLAP-T) adapted from the Cognitive Linguistic Assessment Protocol developed by Aruna (2001) for Kannada speaking adults and Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination Revised -Telugu adapted [ACE-R (TA).

Age related effects were observed in all domains of cognitive linguistic skills among Telugu speaking adults. The age group at which, first signs of decline in performance occurred differed across the domains. For example, decline in attention skills on tasks involving the visual modality and semantic memory tasks was observed first among participants in the age group of 70-to-75 years of age. Age effects were also observed in the analysis of data from individual subtests in the domains of attention, memory, problem solving and organization in CLAP-T. For example, participants in the age group of 75-to-80 years demonstrated lower performance across all tasks in comparison to the other participants. A significant age effect was observed for all subtests across all domains of ACE-R (TA).

This study showed that cognitive skills declined from 40 to 80 years. CLAP-T can be used as assessment tool for identifying cognitive deficits in persons with cognitive communication disorders. This would help in planning intervention programs for persons with cognitive communication disorders.

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Sampath Kumar Lagishetti (Corresponding Author)
Department of Speech Language Pathology
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Naimisham Campus, Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570 006
Karnataka
India
lagishettisk@gmail.com

Lakshmi Venkatesh, Ph.D.
Sweekaar Rehabilitation Institute for Handicapped
Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh
India
lakshmi27@gmail.com
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