Determination of Cognitive Communicative Deficits in Adults with Stroke | Chapter 2 | New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 1
The goal of this study was to compare stroke patients' cognitive communicative performance to that of normal subjects, as well as to compare cognitive communicative performance across stroke subgroups of cortical and subcortical lesion. Materials and Methods: The study included 15 stroke patients (experimental group) and 15 neurologically healthy people (control group). Seven people in the experimental group had cortical lesions and eight had subcortical lesions. All of the subjects' cognitive communication abilities were assessed using the Scale of Cognitive and Communicative Ability for Neurorehabilitation (SCCAN) test. Results: When compared to the control group, the stroke patients fared significantly worse on SCCAN. When compared to other SCCAN tests, stroke patients performed worse on the memory scale. When comparing the cognitive communicative performance of patients in the experimental group, subcortical stroke patients fared worse on SCCAN than cortical stroke patie...