Theory driven experimental references

http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/archive/00001553/01/5141c94d51da7ea841eb292abeb7.pdf

Bilingual aphasia rehabilitation is of increasing interest since more than half the worldís population is bilingual (Paradis, 1998). Although naming deficits have been reported extensively in bilingual aphasic individuals, the results of treatment studies for naming in bilingual aphasia (Galvez & Hinckley, 2003; Hinckley, 2003; Kohnert, 2002) have been equivocal. With regards to crosslinguistic generalization, cueing hierarchy treatments have revealed no crosslinguistic generalization for pairs of words (Galvez & Hinckley, 2003; Hinckley, 2003), and lexical-semantic treatment has resulted in crosslinguistic generalization for cognates only (Kohnert, 2002).

The present experiment attempts to address two unanswered questions in bilingual aphasia rehabilitation (Fabbro, 2001). First, is it sufficient to rehabilitate only one language? Second, does rehabilitation in one language have beneficial effects in the untreated language? We combined existing treatment methodologies for naming with theoretical models of bilingual language processing to guide treatment efforts for patients with bilingual aphasia.