Abstract:Purpose: to analyze the narrative, descriptive, conversational and procedural discourse of fluent aphasic individuals and to compare their performance with healthy individuals. Methods: the authors selected by a systematic sample 22 fluent aphasic individuals complaining of discursive difficulty and that presented language disorders poststroke. The individuals are or were in treatment in the institution of origin. The aphasic individuals were matched in age and education. Both groups were subjected to a protoc… Show more
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