Three patients with no or little English-speaking abilities had their WADA test performed with the help of trained medical interpreters following standard WADA Testing protocol.
1:28 years old right-handed African female with intractable right mesial temporal epilepsy who speaks Nuer had WADA that demonstrated language on the Left hemisphere with memory recall of 2/8 on the right and 8/8 on the left . She successfully underwent right temporal lobectomy.
2:42 years old right-handed Hispanic female with refractory left mesial temporal epilepsy underwent WADA Test which showed left hemisphere language and 6/8 recall on the left and 8/8 on right. She underwent a successful left temporal lobectomy.
3:28 years old Nepalese male with static encephalopathy and intractable epilepsy had WADA Test done with interpreter, primarily for language lateralization, which was lateralized to the left hemisphere. He underwent intracranial EEG monitoring and resective surgery of the left temporal lobe DNET tumor with no loss of language function.