en Speech Therapy Speech Therapy Policy Brief Policy Brief <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-style:italic"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">Background: </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Methods: </b>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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Results:</b> 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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:13pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-style:italic"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><span style="font-style:normal">&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Conclusion:</b> 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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp; Agrammatic aphasia, Stroke-induced aphasia, Persian language, Persian aphasia rehabilitation, Health policy 840 843 http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-10109-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Samaneh Sazegar Nejad samaneh.sn@gmail.com 200319475328460099901 200319475328460099901 No Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran Fariba Yadegari fa.yadegari@uswr.ac.ir 200319475328460099902 200319475328460099902 Yes Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran