Fluencja słowna w ocenie logopedycznej. Badania porównawcze w grupie osób młodych i osób w wieku senioralnym
Verbal Fluency in a Speech Assessment. Comparative Studies in the Group of Young People and the Senioral Age

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the issue of verbal fluency which is perceived in the field of speech therapy as an important component of assessment in many units of speech pathology. The author presented the results of his own research conducted in a group of 40 young people and elderly people, using our own procedure including 8 trials of various trials: oral and written, regarding semantic and literal fluency. Presenting the results of comparative, quantitative and qualitative analysis, within the examined categories, it took into account the number of correctly generated words, the number and diversity of clusters, paying attention to the specificity of the lexical resource in the context of the biolect, and the number of errors made. In addition, to recognize the strategies used by the respondents during the tasks and ways of dealing with difficulties with generating words were identified. The procedure developed for the purposes of own research, which included various types of samples, allowed for more details of verbal fluency assessment, and showed the diversity of the studied groups in the defined range of phenomena.

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