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5.9 PARTICIPANT C4
Participant C4’s personal profile is presented in Table 5.16 below. He lived with
his wife and children. C4 presented with moderate right upper and lower limb
hemiparesis and was independently mobile. C4 expected to return to work with
reduced responsibilities. He was not receiving speech and language therapy at
the time of the investigation.
Table 5.16
C4’s personal, medical, language and cognitive data
Personal details
Language screening Word N-word
scores
Gender M Listening lexical decision 8 7
Age 42;11 Repetition 8 7
Education (yrs) 14 Reading lexical decision 8 7
Pre-morbid employment - Manager Read aloud 7 4
Months post-stroke 13 Spelling 5.5 2.5
Stroke details - Left intra-cerebral Categorisation 15 15 14
bleed and lateral ventricle rupture
HADs anxiety 1 Naming 12
HADs depression 1 CLQT language 21 Moderate
Independent learning 120mins Aphasia score 120 90.2%
Cognitive sub-test scores on CLQT
Stepping-stone
Route
Attention Memory Executive
function
Visuospatial
skills
Clock
drawing
Non-linguistic
learning
122 128 25 82 10 18
Moderate Moderate WNL WNL Mild 100%
5.9.1 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 C4 with reference to the data in Table
5.16.
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