DementiaBank English Protocol Delaware Corpus

Alyssa Lanzi Communication Sciences and Disorders University of Delaware lanzia@udel.edu website

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Citation information

In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one corpus reference.

Lanzi, A., Wallace, S. E., & Bourgeois, M. (2019). Group external memory aid treatment for mild cognitive impairment. Aphasiology, 33(3), 320-336.

Project Description

Data collection for this project is continuing and the data are not yet publicly available.

A standard protocol is administered to participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and those without cognitive impairments.

The protocol includes:

• Picture descriptions -- Cookie Theft, Cat Rescue, "Going and Coming" (Norman Rockwell)
• Story narrative -- Cinderella
• Procedural narrative -- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• Personal narrative -- Hometown

Testing includes:

• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA v.7.1; Nasreddine, et al., 2015)
• Boston Naming Test-Short Form (BNT-SF; Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 2001)

The CHAT transcript ID header tier for the Participant includes the following information:

• Generic -- @ID: language|corpus|PAR|age|sex|dxgroup||Participant||MOCA|
• Example -- @ID: eng|Delaware|PAR|84;00.|female|MCI||Participant||25|

Complete demographic and test data are available in a spreadsheet in the downloadable transcript folder.