Abstract
We report types of aphasia and recovery processes of four Korean-Japanese bilingual aphasics on the basis of their performances on Standard Language Test of Aphasia (SLTA) administered to them. In Japanese, they exhibited Broca's aphasia, mixed aphasia, jargon aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia, respectively. In Korean aphasic disorder of each case was found to be similar to what was exhibited in Japanese and each case was thought to exhibit the same type of aphasia as in Japanese. All cases were also found to follow the same pattern, a synergistic pattern, of recovery, of which three were parallel and one differential. The case with a differential pattern was inferred to have mastered Japanese better than Korean before onset and speech therapy in Japanese was considered to have had a good effect on him.
