Thomas Bak, MD, from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, introduces the importance of cross-linguistic assessment of primary progressive aphasia (PPA). As society becomes increasingly multicultural, it is more and more important to consider the impact of being a non-native speaker in the diagnosis of speech and language disorders. There is a great need for further study of aphasia in a broad range of languages, not just focusing on English-speaking patients. Dr Bak gives the example that in languages where words are given grammatical gender, patients with semantic variant PPA will often misgender words, an observation which is impossible in English-speaking patients where grammatical gender is not present. Additionally, agrammatism will show itself very differently in different languages and by focusing on English-speaking research, we may miss other manifestations of aphasia or its manifestation in non-native speakers. Recorded at the 9th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) 2023 held in Budapest, Hungary.
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