Language impairment in bilingual aphasia: A case study

• Authors: Joanna Łuczyńska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the article is to examine the language results of a unilingual treatment for a bilingual individual with aphasia. The patient, a 36- year old male, was born in Poland, but was exposed mostly to English for the 13 years prior to the incident, due to the fact that his family moved to the United States, where English became his everyday language. At the age of 31, while still resident in the US, the patient sustained a brain injury resulting in Broca’s aphasia. A speech-language evaluation revealed disturbances in all language skills in both languages, with language production more disturbed than comprehension skills.

Keywords

EN

aphasia; bilingual aphasia; recovery patterns; unilingual treatment; language generalization

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 57-72

Contributors

author

Joanna Łuczyńska

• Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Ekonomii TWP w Olsztynie
• Wydział nauk Społecznych, Uniwersytet Gdański
• Instytut Anglistyki, Ateneum, Gdańsk

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Identifiers

ISSN

1732-1220