Abstract: Te aim of this study was to investigate the time window, duration and intensity of optimal speech and language therapy applied to aphasic patients with subacute stroke in our hospital. Te study consisted of 33 patients being hospitalized for stroke rehabilitation in our hospital with frst stroke but without previous history of speech and language therapy. Sixteen sessions of impairment-based speech and language therapy were applied to the patients, 30–60 minutes per day, 2 days a week, for 8 successive weeks. Aphasia assessment in stroke patients was performed with Gülhane Aphasia Test-2 before and afer treatment. Compared with before treatment, fluency of speech, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, oral motor evaluation, automatic speech, repetition and naming were improved afer treatment. Tis suggests that 16 seesions of speech and language therapy, 30–60 minutes per day, 2 days a week, for 8 successive weeks, are e?ective in the treatment of aphasic patients with subacute stroke.

Key words: nerve regeneration, stroke, aphasia, speech and language therapy, disability, rehabilitation, Gülhane Aphasia Test-2, neural regeneration