PATTERN OF RECOVERY OF ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND COMPREHENSION IN APHASIC PATIENTS

Aphasic patients (250 rehabilitated and 138 nonrehabilitated) were subjected to a study to analyze the relationship between recovery in 4 specific language skills: oral and written expression and comprehension. By means of Cohen''s K coefficient of agreement it was ascertained whether recovery of 1 of these language skills significantly affected recovery of the remaining 3 language modalities. In rehabilitated patients recovery of oral and written comprehension and expression was always linked; in non-rehabilitated patients oral comprehension recovery was not associated with recovery of oral expression, reading and writing. Regarding the evolution of aphasia type, none of the experimental subjects changed from a fluent to a non-fluent form of aphasia.