TY - JOUR T1 - Severity and Co-occurrence of Oral and Verbal Apraxias in Left Brain Damaged Adults TT - بررسی میزان هم‌رویدادی و شدت کنش‌پریشی دهانی و کلامی در بزرگسالان مبتلا به ضایعه مغزی نیمکره چپ JF - USWR JO - USWR VL - 13 IS - 1 UR - http://rehabilitationj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-927-en.html Y1 - 2012 SP - 8 EP - 16 KW - Verbal apraxia KW - Oral apraxia KW - Left hemisphere KW - Brain damage KW - Adult N2 - Objective: Oral and verbal apraxias represent motor programming deficits of nonverbal and verbal movements respectively. Studying their properties may shed light on speech motor control processes. This study was focused on identifying cases with oral or verbal apraxia, their co–occurrences and severities. Materials & Methods: In this non-experimental study, 55 left adult subjects with left brain lesion including 22 women and 33 men with age range of 23 to 84 years, were examined and videotaped using oral apraxia and verbal apraxia tasks. Three speech and language pathologists independently scored apraxia severities. Data were analyzed by independent t test, Pearson, Phi and Contingency coefficients using SPSS 12. Results: Mean score of oral and verbal apraxias in patients with and without oral and verbal apraxias were significantly different (P M3 ER -