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5.11 PARTICIPANT C6
Participant C6’s personal details are presented in Table 5.20. He lived with his
wife and despite residual moderate upper and lower limb dominant hemiparesis
was fully mobile and independent. C6 had a history of heart problems since his
early 40s. He had worn a hearing aid for many years prior to his stroke and
sometimes required repetition. He was actively involved with a charity for poststroke
people. He was also in the process of writing his autobiography.
Table 5.20
C6’s personal, medical, language and cognitive data
Personal details
Language screening Word N-word
scores
Gender M Listening lexical decision 8 6
Age 56;10 Repetition 8 6
Education (yrs) 13 Reading lexical decision 8 6
Pre-morbid employment - Engineer Read aloud 8 4
Months post-stroke 13 Spelling 5 3.5
Stroke details –
Categorisation 15 15 15
Left parietal-occipital and frontal lobe
HADs anxiety 16 Naming 12
HADs depression 10 CLQT language 23 Moderate
Independent learning 76mins Aphasia score 119.5 89.8%
Cognitive sub-test scores on CLQT
Stepping-stone
Route
Attention Memory Executive
function
Visuospatial
skills
Clock
drawing
Non-linguistic
learning
184 133 28 93 7 14
WNL Moderate WNL WNL Severe 78%
5.11.1 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 C6 with reference to the data in Table
5.20.
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