Audiologic Evaluation of Aphasic Patients

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Abstract
Eighteen cases of right hemiplegia with aphasia, 6 cases of right hemiplegia without aphasia, and 14 cases of left hemiplegia without aphasia were given pure-tone audiometry. Speech reception thresholds were determined and discrimination tested at 40 db above speech reception threshold and in noise. There is a higher incidence of sensori-neuro impairments affecting the speech frequency range in the left hemiplegic patients than in the right hemiplegic aphasic group. High frequency losses of hearing are probably not related to the cerebrovascular accident which produced the hemiplegia. Hemiplegic patients tend to show greater threshold losses for speech than for pure tones.

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