The impact of aphasia on the patient and family in the first year poststrokeFootnote

This work was supported in part by grants from the Wilhelm Sander-Stiftung (WSS 90.065/1-2, Herrmann & Wallesch) and the Research Program on Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics/Freiburg University. The authors thank Helga Johannsen-Horbach for helpful comments.

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