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Patient-Informant Agreement in Reported Activities and Participation Depends on Aphasia SeverityMarch 8th, 2024
Aphasia, an impairment that most commonly occurs after stroke, is commonly operationalized as a linguistic impairment affecting expressive or receptive language, with the possible presence of deficits in various cognitive domains. Impairments resulting from aphasia have been conceptualized using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (WHO-ICF; Simmons-Mackie & Kagan, 2007; WHO, 2002). The WHO-ICF defines disability as a composition of multiple interdependent domains: 1) body functions and structures, 2) activities and participation, and 3) environment and personal factors. The intention of the WHO-ICF framework is to allow for clinical comparison between different conditions and the impact they have on these domains. The body functions and structures domain refer to the anatomy and physiology of the body that may be impaired. The activities and participation domain refers to the execution of and involvement in activities of d
