Inner speech in the daily lives of people with aphasia.

Introduction: This exploratory, preliminary, feasibility study evaluated the extent to which adults with chronic aphasia ( = 23) report experiencing inner speech in their daily lives by leveraging experience sampling and survey methodology.

Methods: The presence of inner speech was assessed at 30 time-points and themes of inner speech at three time-points, over the course of three weeks. The relationship of inner speech to aphasia severity, demographic information (age, sex, years post-stroke), and insight into language impairment was evaluated.