2022.11.16 Special Lecture on Bilingual Aphasia (Presenter: Ran Li, Ph.D.)

Title: Noun and Verb Treatment in Bilingual Adults with Aphasia

Presenter: Ran Li, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Speech, Language and Reading Lab, The University of Hong Kong Abstract: Bilingual aphasia refers to the loss of functions in one or both languages due to brain damage. In this talk, I will introduce a treatment study in which twelve Mandarin-English bilinguals with aphasia completed a semantic-based naming intervention for nouns and verbs. I will show the process of stimuli selection and the treatment protocol for Semantic Feature Analysis.