Language gains in global aphasia over a three-year period: a case study.
A diagnosis of global aphasia generally suggests poor prognosis for recovery and indicates short-term therapeutic intervention. This case study illustrates language gains made by a patient with global asphasia over a three-year period of speech and language therapy. Prognostic factors against recovery include post middle age; right-handedness; extensive vascular damage; perceptual, sensory, and motor problems; and dysarthric and apraxic involvements associated with aphasia. Despite known patterns of recovery that indicate a six-month plateau in patients with global aphasia, the data on this patient indicates that long-term therapy, in certain cases, is appropriate and necessary.
D001037:Aphasia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D004007:Dichotic Listening Tests; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013070:Speech Therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed