Abstract 

Semantic feature-based treatments (SFTs) are effective rehabilitation strategies for word retrieval deficits in bilinguals with aphasia (BWA). However, few studies have prospectively evaluated the effects of key parameters of these interventions on treatment outcomes. This study examined the influence of intervention-level (i.e., treatment language and treatment sessions), individuallevel (baseline naming severity and age), and stimulus-level (i.e., lexical frequency, phonological length, phonological neighborhood density) factors on naming improvement in a treated and untreated language for 34 Spanish-English BWA who completed 40 hours of SFT. Results revealed significant improvement over time in the treated language, especially for individuals who received therapy in their L1, and the untreated language. Additionally, higher pre-treatment naming scores predicted greater response to treatment. Finally, a frequency effect on baseline naming accuracy and phonological effects on accuracy over time were associated with differential treatment gains. These findings indicate that multilevel factors are influential predictors of bilingual treatment outcomes.