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

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.