Abstract
Patient's bilingual status has significant implications for neuropsychological assessment, namely, performance validity. However, linguistic diversity has made the evaluation of non-credible performance difficult for clinicians and researchers alike. The goal of this research is to supplement the current understanding of Hispanic bilingual individuals' performance on a commonly administered working memory task. Participants included 82 Hispanic, Spanish-English bilingual adults. (Age: Education: M = 15.68, SD = 2.26; Gender: Female (n = 44; 53.7%). Measures included the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) Digit Span subtest and Language and Social Background Questionnaire (LSBQ). Participants were collected via snowball sampling method within the general community and social media, i.e., Twitter, LinkedIn. Participants were administered Digit Span in English. Statistical analyses indicate 2.4% of participants met failure rate criteria for Reliable Digit Span (RDS; ≤ 7) and 1.2% of participants for Reliable Digit Span - Revised (RDS-R; ≤ 11). Results suggest highly educated Hispanic Spanish-English bilingual individuals perform within the expected range when using traditional cut-off scores of embedded performance validity measures for the Digit Span subtest.
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