Communication Skills and Intelligence in Right and Left Hemiplegics

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Abstract
Forty right and 35 left hemiplegics with a mean age of 61.0 years were studied for variations in basic communication skills such as listening to spoken language, naming, clarity of speech, reading, writing, conversational ability. Results were related to side of hemiplegia, number of cerebro-vascular accidents, intelligence, and other background data. Right hemiplegics had significantly more difficulty in all communication skills except incidence and severity of dysarthria. No significant difference was found between right and left hemiplegics on the C.M.M.S. and Knox Cubes. The difficulties shown by many left hemiplegics in tests of listening to spoken language related to overall intellectual deficit.

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