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Differential Impairment And Recovery Of Two Languages In A Bilingual Aphasic Patient: A Casereport, I-Ru Chen, Su-Fen Liao, Ta-Sen Wei
Differential Impairment And Recovery Of Two Languages In A Bilingual Aphasic Patient: A Casereport, I-Ru Chen, Su-Fen Liao, Ta-Sen Wei
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
According to the definition proposed by Grosjean, more than half of the world population is multilingual. Bilingual aphasia is more complex and variable; thus it may need a more individualized rehabilitation program than monolingual aphasia. However, many instances of bilingual aphasia may have been misdiagnosed and treated as monolingual aphasia due to a lack of comprehensive assessment.We present here a change in the language pattern of a bilingual Chinese woman, who initially spoke Cantonese (mother language) and Mandarin (2nd language) very well. She was afflicted by aphasia due to a stroke involving cortical and subcortical lesions in 1999. After rehabilitation …