11-13 October 2021, International Society of Experimental Linguistics, Athens, Greece
Dr. Rami gave a talk about the Shortened Version of the Token Test for Moroccan Arabic Speakers with language comprehension impairments. The Token Test had been introduced as a concise assessment tool to examine mild receptive language impairments in individuals with aphasia. The findings of our study endorsed the suitability of employing MATT to evaluate receptive disturbances in Moroccan Arabic-speaking participants with cognitive deficiencies.
25-27 March 2022, The 35th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Rami delivered a presentation on the adaptation and validation of the BDAE short form (BDAE-SF) into Moroccan Arabic (MA-BDAE). Accordingly, we intended in this investigation to fulfill one of the three general aims proposed by Goodglass (1983): (1) Diagnosis of presence and type of aphasia syndrome, leading to inferences concerning cerebral localization. (2) Measurement of the level of performance over a wide range for both initial determination and detection of change over time. (3) Comprehensive assessment of the assets and liabilities of the patient in all language areas as a guide to therapy.
14-15 June 2018, Mallorca Lectures on Neurolinguistics, Spain
Dr. Rami delivered a presentation focusing on the syntactic movement and production deficits observed in Broca's aphasic patients who speak Moroccan Arabic. The findings have shown that, the ability to produce active sentences remain intact however, some verbs were not correctly inflected for tense. Agreement errors are fewer compared to tense errors. Conversely, impairment was observed across several categories of Moroccan Arabic wh-questions.
14-16 July 2022, The Third International Conference, Al- Akhawaun University, Ifrane Morocco.
Dr. Rami presented on the adaptation of the Object and Action Naming Battery into Moroccan Arabic: Norms for name agreement, frequency, imageability, visual complexity, and age of acquisition. The final version of the Moroccan Arabic OANB (MA-OANB) comprises 70 objects and 60 action items. These stimuli are valuable for a range of psycholinguistic studies and can also serve assessment and therapeutic purposes in Morocco.
He also collaborated, in this conference, on a project with researchers from Morocco (Mohammed V University) and the United States (The City University of New York). The research project, titled "Quantifying the Semantic Content of Naming and Connected Speech Samples of Moroccan Patients Diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease," was presented by Miss Mounia El Jaouhari. The results of this project supported the correlation between Alzheimer's Disease (AD) severity and declining language abilities observed during the picture description task. Additionally, the project corroborated the hypothesis that AD patients experienced difficulties in word production and retrieval.
21-23 October 2023, The 61st Annual Academy of Aphasia Meeting, University of Reading, UK.
Dr. Rami showcased a poster entitled: "Object and Action Naming Among Moroccan Arabic Speakers with and without Aphasia." We aimed to investigate the existence and direction of a neuropsychological dissociation between action and object naming in Moroccan Arabic aphasia and normal language processing. This study tested the hypothesis that a double noun-verb dissociation is neuropsychologically absolute and is straightforwardly reflected in the performance of non-fluent aphasic participants (e.g., Broca’s aphasics) with more pronounced action naming impairments, and the performance of fluent aphasic participants (e.g., Wernicke’s, anomic, and conduction aphasics) with considerably more object naming impairments.
He also participated in a collaborative project with researchers from Morocco (Chouaib Doukkali University) and the United States (The University of Maryland) titled: "Assessing the Validity and Reliability of the Revised Moroccan Arabic Bedside Western Aphasia Battery." The poster presentation was conducted by Miss Loubna El Ouardi.