The present study aims to investigate the short- and long-term effects of two weeks of intensive speech-language pathology intervention with additional physiotherapy, on aphasia and apraxia of speech (AOS) and their neural correlates in thirty persons with chronic stroke. Changes are studied following intensive treatment of aphasia and AOS with standardised speech-language testing and testing of communication and with voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis and resting state functional connectivity (rsFC).
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Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) language battery, in pilot Swedish test A-ning.
Timeframe: Changes from baseline in language battery scores at 2 and 18 weeks.
Rating scale for apraxia of speech (SkaFTA, Swedish version of ASRS)
Timeframe: Changes from baseline scores at 2 and 18 weeks.
Communication Outcome After Stroke (COAST)
Timeframe: Changes from baseline scores at 2 and 18 weeks.
Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Aphasia adapted GAS scales for self-evaluation of communication functions, participation and activity.
Timeframe: Changes from baseline at week 18.