Abstract
Summary
This paper describes the application of linguistic principles in the treatment of a case of long-standing severe dysphasia who had previously failed to make any progress with expressive speech ability despite intensive therapy. It could thus be considered that the patient was acting as his own “control” (Sefer 1973). This seems to be an interesting case in that, as the linguistic analysis indicates, while there seems to have been some delayed spontaneous recovery in vocabulary and morphology, sentence structure always followed the patterns taught.