The Spanish-English Aphasia (SEA) Battery is a language assessment for aphasia in mid-to-high proficiency Spanish-English bilingual speakers. The SEA Battery was developed by Dr. Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah at the University of Maryland with funding from the National Institutes of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH). The SEA Battery is copyrighted by the University of Maryland (2024) and distributed free of cost for researcher and speech-language pathologists (clinician) use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, which permits reusers to copy and distribute the material in unadapted form only, for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

Features of the SEA Battery

• Purpose is to diagnose the presence and severity of aphasia and develop a profile of lexical and morphosyntactic abilities

• Assessment of three modules:

  • diagnostic module

  • lexicosemantic module

  • morphosyntax module

• Two alternate forms in each of two languages (Spanish and English)

• Computer-based administration with pre-recorded instruction prompts 

• Automated summary score calculation if using the online forms

We are currently finalizing the SEA Battery materials. It will be available for researcher and clinician use in June 2025.