BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17857-19595a852681e61fba7b29823622a931@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260710T234625Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T103000 SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Faranak Kianfar DESCRIPTION:\nAphasia\, often marked by anomia\, affects communication\, especially when abstract words are impaired. Abstract words form a larg e portion of everyday vocabulary\; their loss significantly affects expr ession and comprehension. Most anomia therapies emphasize concrete words \, but the Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training (AbSANT) appro ach targets abstract words and promotes generalization to concrete ones. Its bilingual version (BAbSANT) has been successfully adapted to severa l languages\, yet no version addresses Persian-speaking persons with aph asia (PWA). This study developed culturally and linguistically appropria te materials to extend BAbSANT for Persian speakers. Twenty-eight native Persian-speaking adults (ages 23–66) without neurological or language d isorders participated remotely. Participants generated as many abstract and concrete words as possible within two to three minutes in ten themat ic categories and then rated each category’s cultural relevance on a fiv e-point scale. Analyses included average word counts per category\, over lapping words across categories\, abstract-to-concrete ratios based on E nglish concreteness norms\, and correlations between word generation and cultural relevance ratings. Participants produced many words across cat egories\, and cultural relevance ratings were generally moderate to high \, suggesting that all categories were meaningful and suitable for thera py use. There was a non-significant negative correlation between word co unt and cultural relevance. Wedding\, Holiday\, School\, and Home were r ated as most culturally relevant. The strong abstract-to-concrete word r atios across categories indicate that these materials are suitable for a Persian version of BAbSANT.\n\n \;\n\nFor more details: https://eve nts.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-faranak-kianfar/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Aphasia, often marked by anomia, affects communication, especially when abstract words are impaired. Abstract words form a large portion of everyday vocabulary ; their loss significantly affects expression and comprehension. Most an omia therapies emphasize concrete words, but the Abstract Semantic Assoc iative Network Training (AbSANT) approach targets abstract words and pro motes generalization to concrete ones. Its bilingual version (BAbSANT) h as been successfully adapted to several languages, yet no version addres ses Persian-speaking persons with aphasia (PWA). This study developed cu lturally and linguistically appropriate materials to extend BAbSANT for Persian speakers. Twenty-eight native Persian-speaking adults (ages 23–6 6) without neurological or language disorders participated remotely. Par ticipants generated as many abstract and concrete words as possible with in two to three minutes in ten thematic categories and then rated each c ategory’s cultural relevance on a five-point scale. Analyses included av erage word counts per category, overlapping words across categories, abs tract-to-concrete ratios based on English concreteness norms, and correl ations between word generation and cultural relevance ratings. Participa nts produced many words across categories, and cultural relevance rating s were generally moderate to high, suggesting that all categories were m eaningful and suitable for therapy use. There was a non-significant nega tive correlation between word count and cultural relevance. Wedding, Hol iday, School, and Home were rated as most culturally relevant. The stron g abstract-to-concrete word ratios across categories indicate that these materials are suitable for a Persian version of BAbSANT.

 

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