Occupational resettlement in aphasia.

An account is given of the occupational resettlement and progress of four patients with severe dysphasia, due to cerebrovascular accidents. The dysphasia was predominantly expressive in two cases and predominantly receptive in the other two. Three of the patients were resettled in gainful employment and the fourth in a sheltered occupation. In all four cases, the patients attained a very adequate level of working efficiency, distinctly above what had been anticipated on clinical and psychometric grounds. While these results are encouraging, it is stressed that fuller and more extensive long-term follow-up studies of occupational resettlement in aphasia are necessary before firm conclusions can be drawn.