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Academy of Aphasia
The Report of Academy of Aphasia by Hiwa Mohammadi
pplication Code :
306-0213-0059
 
Created Date : Tuesday, October 08, 2013Update Date : Sunday, November 17, 2013IP Address :194.225.48.94
Submit Date : Sunday, November 17, 2013Email : hiwa.mohamadi@gmail.com
Personal Information
Name : Hiwa
Surname : Mohammadi
School/Research center : School of AdvancedTechnologies in Medicine
Possition : student
Tel : +98-831-8386217
E-mail : hiwa.mohamadi@gmail.com
Information of Congress
Title of the Congress : Academy of Aphasia
Title of your Abstract : Language Impairments and Neurogenic Stuttering Following a
Subcortical Small Vessel Ischemia in a Bilingual Kurdish-Persian
Aphasic Patient
Venue : Lucerne/Switzerland
From : Sunday, October 20, 2013
To : Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) : Introduction: Cross linguistic study of aphasia is very important in clinical and theoretical point of view and we have no report on Kurdish-Persian bilingual aphasia. Also, the occurrence of stuttering in people suffering from stroke is a relatively rare condition. In present study, we investigate a right-handed bilingual Kurdish-Persian male (age; 55 years old) that suffered from small vessel ischemia in subcortical white matter. He became aphasic and started to do stuttering after ischemia simultaneously. 
Methods: The 55 years old male was referred to speech-language clinic one month after brain damage. He was a Kurdish native speaker. He started to learn Persian as a second language from 6 at school. His chief complaint was the sever dysfluencies and syllable repetitions in his speech. According to his MRI result, there are multiple high T2/flair signal foci in subcortical white matter, mainly in parietal lobes, up to 6-7 mm diameter. The patient has left hand motor paresis following stroke. His linguistic
profile in both languages was obtained for determine and compare the pattern of probably language deficits in each language using Kurdish and Persian version of Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) (Paradis and Libben, 1987).The severity and type of dysfluencies in both languages was measured using the Persian version of Stuttering Severity Instrument-3 (SSI-3) (Bakhtiar, Seifpanahi, Ghanadzadeg & Packman, 2010) and the Lidcombe behavioral data language of stuttering (LBDL; Bryant & Packman, 1999; Packman & Onslow, 1998; Packman, Onslow, & Bryant, 2000) in a speech sample with 500 syllables. Also the severity of stuttering under Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) in both languages was analyzed using mentioned instruments.
Results: According to BAT assessment, complex commands, syntactic comprehension, antonyms, semantic opposite, listening comprehension and reading comprehension skills was impaired in both languages slightly but Persian was more affected than Kurdish in all categories. Results indicated that percentage of syllables stuttered in Kurdish (13%) was noticeably lower than Persian (18%). According to LBDL, there were more multisyllables unit repetitions than other type of dysfluencies in both languages. Under Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) the severity of stuttering and occurrence of repetitions was decreased in both languages.
Discussion: However speech production was disrupted by dysfluencies but evaluation of patients with BAT show that comprehension was relatively more affected than expression. The native language was less affected. Also, according to present case study, native dominant language is less vulnerable to stuttering occurrence following brain damage. The pattern of speech motor disruption in neurogenic stuttering appeared to be different from developmental stuttering.
Keywords of your Abstract : Aphasia, Neurogenic Stuttering, Bilingualism
Acceptance Letter :
The presentation : Poster
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Where has your abstract been indexed? : Scoups
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The Congress Reporting Form
How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : about 300 volunteers
Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : Germany, USA, Hong Kong, China, Qatar, India, Switzerland, Greek, and so on.
Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : Yes
If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box :  
What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : yes of course, Some body had suggestion about speech apraxia in our patient. also others proposed assessment of the case by neuropsychological tests because they believed that the patients may be suffered from ischemic dementia.
If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : A. Cris Hamilton, Chair of the Program Committee
ANNONI Jean-Marie, President of Aphasie Suisse 
Monica Koenig, Chair local arrangements committee
Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : Unfortunately I don't understand the question very well. If you want to talk to congress staff and members they have e-mail address. I can give their e-mail address to you. you can also get additional information about the congress, members and staffs on http://www.academyofaphasia.org/AnnualMeeting/2013/. I think that they answer to any request and question that you have about the congress, my poster presentation and any other things. In any case I am available to help you and answer to your questions.
Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : every thing is very expensive!!!
Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : Participation in such a congress that experienced aphasiologist, neurologists and neuroscientists were also participated and present very strong lectures was very amazing and useful for me. I met them and some of them studied my poster and made some suggestion and question about my study that actually help me in revising and publishing the study. In other word, I was getting to know new researches and attitudes in aphasia, neurorehabilitation, and brain studies. Another outcome is links and cooperation projects that I talked about them to some aphasiologists and neuroscientists and I think that it is very useful in my future studies. Also I learned very good things about new therapy and rehabilitation procedures in stroke and traumatic brain injuries.