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title = {The De-Sign Platform: An Online Psychometric Tool for Dementia Screening of Deaf Older Adults in two Sign Languages, {GSL} and {{\"O}GS}},
author = "Dimou, Athanasia-Lida and
Goulas, Theodore and
Tsatali, Marianna and
Ntova, Tarsita and
Hoffmann-Lamplmair, Doris and
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and
Efthimiou, Eleni and
Teichmann, Birgit and
Tsolaki, Magda and
Atkinson, Joanna and
Woll, Bencie",
editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni and
Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and
Hanke, Thomas and
Hochgesang, Julie A. and
Mesch, Johanna and
Schulder, Marc",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the {LREC} 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.signlang-1.12/",
doi = "10.63317/35c4iweidxm2",
pages = "113--119",
abstract = {This article presents the De-Sign platform, a web-based psychometric tool specifically designed for screening dementia in Deaf older adults (50+) who use Austrian Sign Language and Greek Sign Language hereinafter {\"O}GS and GSL respectively. The limited access to dementia services for these populations is primarily attributed to a scarcity of healthcare professionals fluent in sign language. Hence, enhancing access to relevant diagnostic services has become a priority. Currently, there is a significant lack of screening tools specifically developed to identify early signs of dementia that are compatible with national sign languages. To address this issue, the De-Sign Erasmus+ (2022-2025) project has employed suitable psychometric instruments that are adapted to the cultural contexts and linguistic norms of Deaf communities in Austria and Greece. The only existing Cognitive Screening Test (CST) for British Sign Language (BSL), used for diagnosing dementia in Deaf older adults, was initially adapted from English by Atkinson et al. (2015). The De-Sign platform hosts a cognitive screening test in {\"O}GS and GSL. Both were linguistically and culturally adapted from the BSL-CST test, providing two web-based versions of a psychometric tool that enables dementia screening within these populations.}
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%T The De-Sign Platform: An Online Psychometric Tool for Dementia Screening of Deaf Older Adults in two Sign Languages, GSL and ÖGS
%A Dimou, Athanasia-Lida
%A Goulas, Theodore
%A Tsatali, Marianna
%A Ntova, Tarsita
%A Hoffmann-Lamplmair, Doris
%A Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita
%A Efthimiou, Eleni
%A Teichmann, Birgit
%A Tsolaki, Magda
%A Atkinson, Joanna
%A Woll, Bencie
%Y Efthimiou, Eleni
%Y Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita
%Y Hanke, Thomas
%Y Hochgesang, Julie A.
%Y Mesch, Johanna
%Y Schulder, Marc
%S Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
%F dimou-etal-2026-de
%X This article presents the De-Sign platform, a web-based psychometric tool specifically designed for screening dementia in Deaf older adults (50+) who use Austrian Sign Language and Greek Sign Language hereinafter ÖGS and GSL respectively. The limited access to dementia services for these populations is primarily attributed to a scarcity of healthcare professionals fluent in sign language. Hence, enhancing access to relevant diagnostic services has become a priority. Currently, there is a significant lack of screening tools specifically developed to identify early signs of dementia that are compatible with national sign languages. To address this issue, the De-Sign Erasmus+ (2022-2025) project has employed suitable psychometric instruments that are adapted to the cultural contexts and linguistic norms of Deaf communities in Austria and Greece. The only existing Cognitive Screening Test (CST) for British Sign Language (BSL), used for diagnosing dementia in Deaf older adults, was initially adapted from English by Atkinson et al. (2015). The De-Sign platform hosts a cognitive screening test in ÖGS and GSL. Both were linguistically and culturally adapted from the BSL-CST test, providing two web-based versions of a psychometric tool that enables dementia screening within these populations.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.signlang-1.12/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/35c4iweidxm2
%P 113-119
Markdown (Informal)
[The De-Sign Platform: An Online Psychometric Tool for Dementia Screening of Deaf Older Adults in two Sign Languages, GSL and ÖGS](https://aclanthology.org/2026.signlang-1.12/) (Dimou et al., SignLang 2026)
ACL
- Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Theodore Goulas, Marianna Tsatali, Tarsita Ntova, Doris Hoffmann-Lamplmair, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Eleni Efthimiou, Birgit Teichmann, Magda Tsolaki, Joanna Atkinson, and Bencie Woll. 2026. The De-Sign Platform: An Online Psychometric Tool for Dementia Screening of Deaf Older Adults in two Sign Languages, GSL and ÖGS. In Proceedings of the LREC 2026 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion, pages 113–119, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).