A Policy Brief on the Language-Specific Rehabilitation of Persian-Speaking Individuals with Stroke-Induced Agrammatic Aphasia.

Abstract

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.