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Sazegar Nejad S, Yadegari F. A Policy Brief on the Language-Specific Rehabilitation of Persian-Speaking Individuals with Stroke-Induced Agrammatic Aphasia. Med J Islam Repub Iran 2026; 40 (1) :840-843
URL: http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-10181-en.html
A Policy Brief on the Language-Specific Rehabilitation of Persian-Speaking Individuals with Stroke-Induced Agrammatic Aphasia
Samaneh Sazegar Nejad , Fariba Yadegari *
Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran & Clinical Research Development Center of Rofeideh Rehabilitation Hospital, Tehran, Iran , fa.yadegari@uswr.ac.ir
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Background: Aphasia rehabilitation in Persian is limited by the lack of widely adopted language-specific assessment and rehabilitation guidance. This policy brief draws on evidence from Persian-speaking individuals with stroke-induced agrammatic aphasia.
   Methods: A descriptive-analytical study included 21 individuals with agrammatic aphasia and 21 non-brain-damaged participants. Language performance was examined across word, sentence, and discourse production and complex sentence comprehension.
   Results: Participants with agrammatic aphasia showed reduced language output and grammatical resources, shorter and simpler sentence and discourse structures, verb production difficulties, and poorer comprehension of longer and noncanonical sentences.
   Conclusion: The findings support five priorities: Persian-specific assessment standards, interdisciplinary workforce training, a national aphasia database, shared research infrastructure, and functional, person-centered rehabilitation guidance.
 
Keywords: Agrammatic aphasia, Stroke-induced aphasia, Persian language, Persian aphasia rehabilitation, Health policy
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