Aphasia may be categorized as fluent or nonfluent, based on the average length of utterances and the amount of meaningful content a person produces. Within these two categories, various subtypes of aphasia can manifest (i.e., conduction aphasia, anomic aphasia, transcortical motor aphasia, global aphasia, mixed nonfluent aphasia) based on certain impairments. Clinicians need to consider that individuals with aphasia may not fit into a single aphasia type or subtype. Additionally, aphasia presentation may also change over time as communication improves with recovery. t.
The recovery process of aphasia varies significantly from person to person. Predictive indicators of long-term recovery include the severity of neural injury, lesion sight, and size (Benghanem et al., 2019; Hillis et al., 2018; Kristinsson et al., 2022; Plowman et al., 2012; Watila & Balarabe, 2015). It is reported that poststroke depression (Berg et al., 2003) and social isolation (Hilari & Northcott, 2006; Vickers, 2010) may negatively affect improvement.
