The Pattern of Language Deficit in Aphasic Patients who Suffer from CVA: Evidences of Kurdish-Persian Bilinguals

Production and compreh-ension disorders، in various aspects of lang-uage، are common conditions that have been observed among the patient who suff-ered from CVA. Analysis of these impair-ments would be effective in their rapid and better treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the type of aphasia and recov-ery pattern of Kurdish- Persian bilingual aphasic patients. In this study، Kur-dish and Persian versions of bilingual aph-asic test (BAT) have been used in order to investigate the type of aphasia and language impairment in three Kurdish- Persian bilin-gual aphasic patients. They were in hospital because of CVA and damage in left hemi-sphere. Three other persons without any brain damage or psychological problems were randomly chosen as control group. Their language performance were compared and analyzed in a systematic way. Data indicated that the aphasic patients have more difficulty and impair-ment in language production and repetition rather than comprehension; their speech were characterized by a difficulty with function words and inflectional morphemes، their language production were so sim-plified، paraphasic and telegraphic which contained the lexical words and almost always omitted functional words. Their repetition ability was so weak that they were not able to repeat no sentence corre-ctly. On the other hand، their speech com-prehensions were good and satisfactory. Their language profile for Persian and Kur-dish were alike، and language deficit and recovery pattern of these two languages showed no significant differences and somehow they were the same. Discussion & The results sho-wed that the type of aphasia of these three bilingual aphasic patients whose left hem-isphere were damaged is Broca area، in both Kurdish and Persian and the recovery patte-rn was accord to a parallel model.