Construct validity, external validity, and reliability for a battery of language-specific attention tasks

摘要: ABSTRACTBackground: Multiple language problems have been attributed to attentional impairments in people with aphasia. As a result, number of investigations examined the effectiveness treatments for improving impaired processing. With few exceptions, all studies used domain-general (nonspecific) attention training nonlinguistic tasks as therapeutic modality. Unfortunately, despite well-documented associations between and attention, these not yielded substantial improvements outcomes. It may be that lack specificity approaches recruiting language-related processes is contributing factor. To address this issue, Language-Specific Attention Treatment (L-SAT) (Peach, 2012) was proposed using are purported recruit Further investigation into requirements needed.Aims: establish construct v...