COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS IN STROKE PATIENTS

Abstract

Introduction: Disturbances of speech and language are one of the most serious and disabling manifestations of brain dysfunction in general and stroke in particular. A number of disorders of speech and language can occur in the post stroke period like dysarthria, aphasia, alexia, agraphia and acalculia. Adequate rehabilitation of stroke patients needs complete understanding of these various disorders, their frequency, evolution, remission and persistence of these deficits which modify over a period of time.