The Boston Naming Test and Swedish children: Normative Data and response analysis

Abstract

The present study concerns responses to the Boston Naming Test (BNT) in a sample of native Swedish-speaking children between the ages of 6 and 15. Normative data are presented not only for the number of correct responses but also for the frequency of types of substitutive responses on the BNT. The study involved 152 children and adolescents from four different grades (kindergarten, third grade, sixth grade, and ninth grade). For the sample, a normal distribution of test subjects was sought, including both linguistically weaker and stronger students from school classes in representative areas. The results for the Swedish children and adolescents were slightly lower than the American norms for the BNT. A classification was undertaken of the nontarget-word responses, which showed that there were significant differences in the use of the various semantic response categories among the grades. As expected, the younger children gave more unspecific responses and also omitted more responses than the older children. Based on the results of this study, it can be maintained that despite cultural and linguistic differences, the BNT is applicable for examining the vocabulary and word retrieval abilities of native Swedish-speaking children and adolescents.

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Impact of cognitive and linguistic ability on gaze behavior in children with hearing impairment

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