Spontaneous recovery of language in patients with aphasia between 4 and 34 weeks after stroke.
The paper describes the spontaneous recovery of language abilities of 52 stroke patients who were aphasic for more than 4 weeks. These patients had been randomly allocated to receive no speech therapy and had been assessed at 6-weekly intervals after a stroke. There was improvement in language abilities over time. Age, sex and aphasia type were not related to the amount of improvement. An aphasic patient's level of language ability at 6 months could be predicted on the basis of the test score on the Porch Index of Communicative Ability at 4 weeks.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000628:therapy; D001037:Aphasia / Q000628:therapy*; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000628:therapy; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000628:therapy; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013070:Speech Therapy