Abstract
This paper presents the case study of a 56-yr-old right-handed monolingual Chinese aphasic who had suffered a left hemisphere intracerebral bleed and was studied 1 1 2 and 2 1 2 yr post stroke with a Mandarin translation of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Exam and the Token Test. She had a “mixed” aphasia, characterized by moderate-severe deficits in all language modalities. Her speech output was limited to one-word responses and although she was better at monosyllabic than bi-syllabic Chinese word repetition, she made errors on both word types characterized by incorrect tones, verbal paraphasias, omissions, substitutions and preseveration. There was good performance in pointing to single characters and matching characters to pictures; she could not read sentences. Writing was limited to her name and simple nouns; sequence of brush strokes was incorrect; errors were not related to number of brush strokes in the character. She had both a bucco-facial and left limb apraxia. Tone perception was impaired as tested by a specially designed tone perception test.
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