18 Patients have been under observation to decide specifically what kinds of the speech problem they suffer most. The present study has shown that the cognitive -language disorganization, caused by the decrease of the cognitive capability, has more frequented the patients than Broca´s, Wernicke´s, and global aphasia. The study has also learned that the main characteristics of the speech problem includes: weakening of the ability of associating words, and of the ability of identifying words used with
less frequency; in listening, the patients show difficulties in comprehending vocabularies and pitting numbers in a reversed order; in writing, have problems more in voluntary writing than in dictation and experienced a similar difficulty in complicated calculations .
With these findings in hand, we realized that the speech problem deserves a special attention and a proper treatment for it must be included in a comprehensive rehabilitation plan for the traumatic head injured patients.
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