Table 1.
Treatment Group | ID | Gender | Ethnicity | Age | Number lesioned voxels | MPOa | AACb exper. | Level of education | Aphasia typec | Aphasia severityc | RCBA-2d |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AAC | 1 | Female | Caucasian | 57 | 18727 | 79 | None | Some coll.e | Global | 40.8 | 72 |
2 | Male | Caucasian | 61 | 30570 | 91 | LTg | Bachelor’s | Broca’sf | 68.6 | 69 | |
3f | Female | Caucasian | 47 | 14616 | 124 | LT, HTh | Bachelor’s | Broca’sf | 48.9 | 72 | |
4 | Female | Caucasian | 63 | 17705 | 170 | LT, HT | Bachelor’s | Conduction | 71.2 | 95 | |
5i | Female | Caucasian | 57 | 7849 | 16 | None | High school | Wernicke’s | 37.6 | 81 | |
6 | Female | Caucasian | 39 | 18807 | 44 | None | Some coll. | Anomic | 82.4 | 86 | |
Usual Care | 7 | Female | African amer. | 58 | 1583 | 48 | None | Bachelor’s | Anomic | 89.2 | 74 |
8 | Female | Caucasian | 60 | 12950 | 105 | None | Some coll. | Conduction | 74.0 | 86 | |
9 | Male | Caucasian | 59 | 14009 | 73 | LT | Master’s | Anomic | 68.9 | 71 | |
10 | Male | Caucasian | 47 | 10989 | 69 | None | High school | Wernicke’s | 55.5 | 63 | |
11 | Male | Caucasian | 71 | 14066 | 69 | LT | Master’s | Broca’sf | 62.7 | 93 | |
12 | Male | Caucasian | 66 | 30110 | 38 | LT, HT | Bachelor’s | Broca’sf | 36.7 | 67 |
Note.
Months post-onset
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Experience
Western Aphasia Battery-Revised used to determine type and severity, Aphasia Quotient out of 100
Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia-2nd Edition, total points available = 100
Some College
Apraxia of Speech present based on clinical judgment
Low-Tech
High-tech
Left-handed (pre-stroke).