The cultural and linguistic adaptation of the Oxford Cognitive Screen to Tamil.

Objective: The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) is a screening tool to assess stroke patients for deficits in attention, executive functions, language, praxis, numeric cognition, and memory. In this study, the OCS was culturally and linguistically adapted to Tamil, for use in India (OCS TA), considering the differences between formal and spoken versions of Tamil and consideration of its phonetic complexity.

Method: We adopted two-parallel form versions of the OCS and generated normative data for them.