Cognitive-Linguistic Assessment Protocol in Telugu -An Adaptation of CLAP in Kannada

Abstract

The current study mainly aimed at adapting the Cognitive Linguistic Assessment Protocol for adults (CLAP) – Kannada (Kamath, 2001) into Telugu language (CLAP-T). Normal elderly persons in the age range of 65-80 years were considered for the study. The participants were classified based on the classification given by Nuegarten (1974); young-old, 75-85 as old-old, above 85 years as oldest-old. All male and female participants performed almost equal mean and SD values in all domains. Few subtests showed variations in performance of participants in three age groups. All the four domains showed a general trend where in, as the age increases there is degradation in cognitive performance. Reaction time for the visual task was considered and showed a delineating performance across three age groups. This assessment tool will help the professionals to find out cognitive-linguistic performance of Telugu speaking individuals across different age, gender and four domains i.e. attention, perception and discrimination, memory, problem solving and organization.