RECOVERY PATTERNS IN BILINGUAL APHASIA
Journal Title: Acta Neuropsychologica - Year 2011, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
The purpose of the research was to examine the language outcomes of a unilingual treatment for a bilingual individual with aphasia. The patient, a 36- year old male, was born in Poland, but was exposed mostly to English for the 13 years prior to the incident, due to the fact that his family moved to the United States, where English became his everyday language. He started to learn English at the age of 10 at school, and continued studying it until the end of his formal education, at the age of 18. At the age of 31, while still resident in the US, BB sustained a brain injury. A CT scan performed after the injury showed a left-frontal lesion, resulting in Broca’s aphasia. A speech-language evaluation revealed impairments in all language skills in both languages, with language production more impaired than comprehension skills. During 8 months of treatment carried out in English, he spent many hours a day working with English texts and computer programs to improve his English skills.The results reported above suggest that treatment in one language contributes to the recovery of the non-treated language, pointing up the importance of deficit-specific modifications within the context of constraint language therapy.
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Joanna Łuczyńska
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