Clinical rehabilitation
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Clinical rehabilitation · Oct 2007
Randomized Controlled TrialA prospective, randomized, parallel group, controlled study of the effect of intensity of speech and language therapy on early recovery from poststroke aphasia.
To examine whether the amount of speech and language therapy influences the recovery from poststroke aphasia. ⋯ Intensive speech and language therapy (as delivered in this study) did not improve the language impairment significantly more than the ;standard' therapy which averaged 1.6 hours/week. The improvement in aphasia was least in patients who were in the NHS group. These patients received 0.57 (0.49) hours of therapy per week.
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Clinical rehabilitation · Oct 2007
The rate and extent of improvement with therapy from the different types of aphasia in the first year after stroke.
To examine the rate and extent of improvement from the different types of aphasia in the first year after stroke. ⋯ Patients with Broca's aphasia appear to have the best prognosis for improvement of language function in the first year of stroke. The extent of improvement in patients with global aphasia is better than that of patients with Wernicke's aphasia.