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The severity of post-stroke aphasia has also been reported to be less in bilingual patients compared to their monolingual counterparts

To analyze the effect of bilingualism on aphasia recovery during the early post-stroke phase.

Bengali version of Western Aphasia Battery (WAB)was used for language assessment. It was administered during the first week and 90–100 days post-stroke. Severity assessment was done by calculating aphasia quotient (AQ). We enrolled 155 monolingual and 53 bilingual patients with aphasia, of whom 120 monolingual and 43 bilingual participants were followed up.

The probability of recovering was higher for bilinguals than in monolingual patients. When the location of stroke was analyzed, the percentage of patients recovering in the “medium” class was higher for bilingual than monolinguals by fair margins for sub-cortical and mixed cortico-subcortical …