Background: Broca’s APHASIA is a type of APHASIA mostly caused by stroke. One of the most common deficits in this kind of APHASIA is dysprosody which can cause disruption in patients' communications. In this study, we examined dysprosody in patients with Broca’s APHASIA.Methods: 10 patients with Broca’s APHASIA and 10 normal subjects were selected from speech therapy clinics and rehabilitation centers in Isfahan city, Iran. After recording patients’ voices, the data were analyzed using Praat software in laboratory of the University of Isfahan. The spectrum of each word was analyzed accurately; so that the vowel duration, intensity, and fundamental frequency (f0) of each word were extracted. Findings: Duration of /a/ was significantly longer in patients than normal people. Vowels preceding voiced stop consonants were found to be longer compared to those preceding voiceless stop sounds. The patients demonstrated a lower degree of performance in f0, and a higher maximum peak intensity compared to the control group. The effects of age in f0, intensity, and /a/ duration were significant but nonlinear.Conclusion: In this study, we checked the dysprosody in Iranian patients Brocas' a APHASIA using Praat software. The result of our study can cause changes in knowledge about speech pathology and improving speech deficits in these patients.

Introduction: The APHASIA Check List (ACL) is a comprehensive, time-saving tool for language evaluation in APHASIA, including a cognitive assessment part. This cross-sectional study aimed to translate ACL into Persian and analyze the psychometric features of the translated version. The original version of the ACL was translated and adapted from German,its psychometric features were then determined. Methods: Twenty People With APHASIA (PWA) and 50 age-and education-matched, cognitively healthy controls participated in this research. Possible floor and ceiling effects, discriminant validity, test-retest reliability, and internal consistency of the test were analyzed in addition to the evaluation of internal correlations between the test parts (language & cognition). Results: Regarding the performance of PWAs in the language section and the cognitive subtests assessing attention, memory, and reasoning, there were no floor and ceiling effects. Adequate discriminant validities for the language section of the test [i. e., total score: (Mann-Whitney U= 6. 000, P<0. 001),diagnostic subtests scores: (Mann-Whitney U= 3. 000, P<0. 001), and each subtest individually. Besides, the attention subtest of the cognition section (Mann-Whitney U= 16. 500, P<0. 001) was also observed. There was no difference between the control and patient groups in the subtests of memory (Mann-Whitney U= 497. 500, P=0. 973) and reasoning (Mann-Whitney U= 3. 000, P= 308). The test-retest reliability was acceptable in all subtests (ICC agreement= 0. 573-0. 984). The ACL-P suggested appropriate internal consistency (Cronbach’, s alpha coefficient= 0. 761 for test & retest scores). There were also significant correlations between language and cognition in the control and patient groups. Conclusion: The ACL-P test indicated sufficient reliability and validity for the evaluation of Persian-speaking PWAs and is suggested to be used in studies on this population.

Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of APHASIA in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, here F. D., who was diagnosed with Broca’s APHASIA.Methods: To assess her linguistic competence, and more particularly, her knowledge of syntax and semantics, we administered a modified version of the Bilingual APHASIA Test in Kalhori.Results: Although she showed severe deficits in almost all modalities and levels examined, results indicated definiteness, prepositions and verb agreement with the subject as the most problematic areas.Discussion: While impairments to do with prepositions and parts of speech are expected features of aphasic patients, as far as the assessment of verbal morphology of Kalhori is concerned, results seem to replicate the results achieved by Nilipour et al. (2001) researching Persian bilingual aphasics.