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5.5 PARTICIPANT C1
Participant C1’s personal profile is presented in Table 5.8. C1 had moderate
right-sided residual paresis and lived alone independently. Since her stroke she
had been actively involved in a charity for young post-stroke people. She also
recently completed a college course to help improve writing and office skills and
had returned to work with reduced responsibilities. C1 was discharged from
speech and language therapy at the time of the investigation.
Table 5.8
C1’s personal, medical, language and cognitive data
Personal details
Language screening Word N-word
scores
Gender F Listening lexical decision 8 8
Age 39;05 Repetition 8 6
Education (yrs) 21.5 Reading lexical decision 8 8
Pre-morbid employment –
Read aloud 7 5
Trading Standards Officer
Months post-stroke 66 Spelling 6 3
Stroke details –
Categorisation 15 15 15
Left middle and anterior infarct
HADs anxiety 6 Naming 12
HADs depression 4 CLQT language 30 WNL
Independent learning 120mins Aphasia score 124 93.2%
Cognitive sub-test scores on CLQT
Steppingstone
Route
Attention Memory Executive
function
Visuospatial
skills
Clock drawing Non-linguistic
learning
203 163 30 99 12 18
WNL WNL WNL WNL WNL 100%
5.5.1 Predictive factors for learning new vocabulary
The various factors for determining predictors of new learning are discussed in
section 5.4.2 and are evaluated below for C1 with reference to the data in Table
5.8.
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