The cognitive tests were used to exclude patients who, due to cognitive or sensory impairments, could not perform the language tasks reliably, and to allow non-linguistic modifications of task administration procedure where needed.
Moreover, Ragan maintains that as for the elaborative text compared to linguistic simplification, modification promoted text coherence.
The expert panel recommended several minor linguistic and grammatical modifications, correction of spelling, and clearer instruction statements.
It remains unclear if the alternative version is the result of a misprint or part of the common linguistic and textual modifications in American editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Given that elderly in China, similar to those in many other Asian countries [ 8, 12], have relatively low education level, and that the MoCA scale is translated based on the original Western version with some linguistic and cultural modifications, it remains uncertain whether the MoCA-BJ could be effectively applied to the Chinese community-based population.
Working from a rock-band foundation (electric lead and rhythm guitars, bass, and drum set), he subsequently made a series of linguistic, textual, and structural modifications to the music that ultimately became the hallmarks of chimurenga.
Similarly, during this process, translation discrepancies and linguistic issues arose, and modifications were made accordingly.
Failure to achieve this end point might lead to the conclusion that different geriatric profiles exist, when in fact the items may have been interpreted differently by the clinicians because of linguistic shortcomings and unsatisfactory modifications [ 9].
(This modification didn't mention linguistic profiling — singling out, say, Spanish speakers).
