Table 1.
People with aphasia (PWA) demographics: gender, age, total years of education, and handedness prestroke and poststroke.
| Participant | Gender | Age | Years of education | Years post aphasia | Handedness prestroke/current | Stroke and diagnostic information from medical chart review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PWA3 | Male | 70 | 18 | 2 | Right/right | 1 L CVA in 2012 and 1 R CVA; mild anomic aphasia |
| PWA4 | Male | 54 | 16 | 5 | Right/left | L CVA (left PCA) in 2009 followed by subsequent R CVA (temporoparietal); mild anomic aphasia |
| PWA5 | Male | 48 | 12 | 5 | Right/left | L MCA CVA (ischemic, thalamic/parietal); mild anomic aphasia and mild AOS |
| PWA6 | Male | 67 | 14 | 12 | Right/left | L CVA (ischemic); severe nonfluent aphasia, severe apraxia of speech |
| PWA7 | Male | 80 | 19 | 8 | Right/right | L CVA (ischemic); mild anomic aphasia |
| PWA9 | Male | 75 | 16 | 2.5 | Right/left | TIA/L CVA (ischemic, carotid artery); moderate–severe nonfluent transcortical motor aphasia |
| PWA10 | Female | 52 | 18 | 4.5 | Right/left | AVM/L CVA (hemorrhage), frontoparietal; anomic aphasia |
| PWA11 | Male | 49 | 20 | 5 | Right/right | L MCA CVA (ischemic); mild nonfluent aphasia |
| PWA12 | Male | 71 | 21 | 10 | Right/right | Six total strokes, starting in 1999; aphasia after L CVA (ischemic) in 2004 |
| PWA13 | Male | 56 | 16 | 2 | Right/right | L MCA CVA (ischemic); anomic aphasia |
| PWA14 | Male | 67 | 16 | 11 | Right/left | L CVA (ischemic), parietal (Wernicke's area); mild fluent aphasia |
| PWA15 | Female | 49 | 14 | 3 | Right/left | AVM/L CVA (hemorrhage); severe nonfluent aphasia |
| PWA16 | Male | 68 | 13 | 0.58 | Right/left | Single CVA, location unknown; mild fluent aphasia |
| PWA18 | Male | 49 | 12 | 3.5 | Right/right | L MCA (superior division) CVA (hemorrhage), affecting the insula and temporal lobe |
| PWA19 | Female | 76 | 14 | 4 | Right/left | L MCA CVA (hemorrhage); mild–moderate mixed aphasia |
| PWA20 | Female | 30 | 17 | 4 | Right/left | L MCA CVA (parietal, ischemic); moderate–severe nonfluent aphasia |
| PWA21 | Male | 43 | 16 | 1.5 | Right/right | L carotid CVA; mild fluent aphasia |
| PWA22 | Male | 64 | 12 | 0.60 | Right/right | L MCA CVA (ischemic), temporoparietal and subcortical |
| PWA23 | Female | 55 | 16 | 2 | Right/right | L MCA CVA (ischemic) |
| PWA24 | Female | 53 | 16 | 7 | Right/right | L CVA (ischemic, carotid artery) |
Note. R = right; L = left; PCA = posterior cerebral artery; MCA = middle cerebral artery; CVA = cerebrovascular accident; AOS = apraxia of speech; TIA = transient ischemic attack; AVM = arteriovenous malformation.