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This study was designed to examine the effect of language proficiency and level of verbal mediation on failure rates on performance validity tests (PVTs). PVTs with high and low verbal mediation were administered to 80 healthy community-dwelling English-Arabic bilinguals. Digit Span and Animal Fluency were administered in both English and Arabic, in counterbalanced order, as part of a brief battery...