The lifetime learning of illiterate and low-educated individuals shapes their cognitive skills, which are challenging to grade by the current available neuropsychological tools. Which is the best available cognitive screening tools validated in the illiterate and low-educated subjects to assess language impairments?
Through a battery of tests? This used to include accessible tests such as the Ravens Progressive Matrices.
You may find this study useful: https://aalfredoardila.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/2010-ardila-et-al-illiteracy-neuropsychology-of-cognition-wihout-reading1.pdf
For several years this population was my assessment focus. Valid data leading to useful predictions was found by asking these individuals to draw the figures in the Bender-Gestalt test, then make a picture/map of the house they lived in currently, then asking them to carry out a few tasks with concrete, observable, outcomes. You won't get numbers to define their status, but you will get a useful measure for treatment/training recommendations.
Psychologist Paul McGaffey, PhD(ABD)
Francesc S, here is a v useful article describing some detailed behavioural (non-verbal) observations I've made to assess illiterate, developmentally delayed, and stroke victims: The measurement, evolution, and neural representation of action grammars of human behavior, Dietrich Stout, Thierry Chaminade, Jan Apel, Ali Shafti & A. Aldo Faisal, www.nature.com/scientificreports,
Francesc Serrat you may find this study helpful, illiteracy and culture-fair tests were a major issue tackled in this -
Maj M, Satz P, Janssen R, et al. WHO Neuropsychiatric AIDS Study, Cross-sectional Phase II: Neuropsychological and Neurological Findings. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1994;51(1):51–61. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1994.03950010051007
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