Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Veronica Pucci, Lorenzo Diana, Alessia Corvaglia, Aida Niang, Silvia Mattiello, Alice Naomi Preti, Giorgia Durante, Adele Ravelli, Lucia Consonni, Carolina Guerra, Adriana Delli Ponti, Gaia Sangalli, Teresa Difonzo, Stefano Scarano, Laura Perucca, Stefano Zago, Ildebrando Appollonio, Sara Mondini, Nadia Bolognini
BACKGROUND: This study aimed at developing and standardizing the Telephone Language Screener (TLS), a novel, disease-nonspecific, telephone-based screening test for language disorders. METHODS: The TLS was developed in strict pursuance to the current psycholinguistic standards. It comprises nine tasks assessing phonological, lexical-semantic and morpho-syntactic components, as well as an extra Backward Digit Span task. The TLS was administered to 480 healthy participants (HPs), along with the Telephone-based Semantic Verbal Fluency (t-SVF) test and a Telephone-based Composite Language Index (TBCLI), as well as to 37 cerebrovascular/neurodegenerative patients-who also underwent the language subscale of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS-L)...
November 27, 2023: Neurological Sciences