2008–2009 Projects on Multicultural Activities Bilingual
Performance on an Object and Action Battery: Preliminary
Normative Data in Spanish and English Lisa A. Edmonds University
of Florida The U.S. has the fifth largest Spanish-speaking
community in the world, with 30 million citizens (12% of the
population) that speak Spanish. The Hispanic elderly population
is expected to increase from <4 percent of the total elderly
population in 1990 to 16 percent by the middle of the next
century. Hispanics are 30% more likely than non-Hispanic
Caucasians to have a stroke, and thus are at a greater risk for
aphasia. Lexical retrieval impairments are the most common
deficit in aphasia. As a result, a fundamental aspect of aphasia
evaluation is testing naming abilities. However, there are no
available naming tests developed specifically for Spanish-
English populations in the United States. Providing bilingual
normative data on available naming tests is an alternative until
appropriate tests can be developed. The purpose o