Översättning av Western Aphasia Battery ? Revised till svenska och utprovning av översättningen på en normalspråkig population
The purpose of the present study was to translate Western AphasiaBattery ? Revised (WAB-R) to Swedish and test the translation on a group of nonlanguage-impaired individuals. The purpose was also to establish equivalencebetween WAB-R and its Swedish translation and to examine a possible correlationbetween test results and the background factors sex, age, educational length andfirst language. 67 subjects participated in the study. The results showed that femalesex, long education (?12 yrs) and being a native speaker of Swedish had significantpositive association to a higher test result. However, since the results also showed aclear ceiling-effect, with a mean of 98,3 (±1,6) and a median of 98.8 out of 100points for the entire group any significant results must be interpreted with caution.To establish equivalence certain adjustments to the scoring system of the test aresuggested.