Sleepiness, Exertion Fatigue, Arousal, and Vigilant Attention in Persons With Chronic Aphasia

Purpose Individuals in the acute and chronic stages of stroke recovery often report more daytime sleepiness ( Sterr, Herron, Dijk, & Ellis, 2008 ) and fatigue that qualitatively differs from “normal” feelings of fatigue they experienced prestroke ( De Doncker, Dantzer, Ormstad, & Kuppuswamy, 2018 ). Speech-language pathologists frequently observe signs of fatigue in their clients with aphasia and perceive that client fatigue impedes...