Verbal Comprehension Ability in Aphasia: Demographic and Lexical Knowledge Effects

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of the community and patient samples.

	Community; sample	Comprehension rating^3
		Impaired^4 (𝑁=11)	Nonimpaired (𝑁=11)
Age (years)^1	62.88 (9.18)	61.45 (12.08)	54.17 (8.57)
	46–83	33–80	38–67
Education (years)	11.22 (4.62)	10.54 (4.63)	10.36 (3.90)
	0–20	6–17	6–16
Gender
Men	195	11	11
Women	285	0	0
Occupation^2
Manual labor	122	3	2
Clerical	176	7	7
Homemaker	64	0	0
Scientific^3	118	1	2
Geographic area
Urban	168	9	10
Rural/small town	112	2	1

1Mean (SD) and range. ²Current occupation or main occupation prior to retirement. ³Professional occupation requiring a university degree, such as doctor, architect, pharmacist, and teacher. ⁴Based on BDAE comprehension domain.